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Wes McKinney resolved ARROW-7858. --------------------------------- Fix Version/s: 0.17.0 Resolution: Fixed Issue resolved by pull request 6633 [https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/6633] > [C++][Python] Support casting an Extension type to its storage type > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-7858 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-7858 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++, Python > Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche > Assignee: Krisztian Szucs > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 0.17.0 > > Time Spent: 4h > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Currently, casting an extension type will always fail: "No cast implemented > from extension<arrow.py_extension_type> to ...". > However, for casting, we could fall back to the storage array's casting rules? -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)