Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-8442:
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Summary: [Python] NullType.to_pandas_dtype inconsisent with dtype
returned in to_pandas/to_numpy
Key: ARROW-8442
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8442
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Python
Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
There is this behaviour of {{to_pandas_dtype}} returning float, while all
actual conversions to numpy or pandas use object dtype:
{code}
In [23]: pa.null().to_pandas_dtype()
Out[23]: numpy.float64
In [24]: pa.array([], pa.null()).to_pandas()
Out[24]: Series([], dtype: object)
In [25]: pa.array([], pa.null()).to_numpy(zero_copy_only=False)
Out[25]: array([], dtype=object)
{code}
So we should probably fix {{NullType.to_pandas_dtype}} to return object, which
is used in practice.
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