Antoine Pitrou created ARROW-2141: ------------------------------------- Summary: [Python] Conversion from Numpy object array to varsize binary unimplemented Key: ARROW-2141 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2141 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: Python Affects Versions: 0.8.0 Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
{code:python} >>> arr = np.array([b'xx'], dtype=np.object) >>> pa.array(arr, type=pa.binary(2)) <pyarrow.lib.FixedSizeBinaryArray object at 0x7fe1ecaefa98> [ b'xx' ] >>> pa.array(arr, type=pa.binary()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<ipython-input-12-e40948b94b33>", line 1, in <module> pa.array(arr, type=pa.binary()) File "array.pxi", line 177, in pyarrow.lib.array File "error.pxi", line 77, in pyarrow.lib.check_status File "error.pxi", line 85, in pyarrow.lib.check_status ArrowNotImplementedError: /home/antoine/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/python/numpy_to_arrow.cc:1585 code: converter.Convert() /home/antoine/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/python/numpy_to_arrow.cc:1098 code: compute::Cast(&context, *arr, type_, options, &casted) /home/antoine/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/cast.cc:1022 code: Cast(ctx, Datum(array.data()), out_type, options, &datum_out) /home/antoine/arrow/cpp/src/arrow/compute/kernels/cast.cc:1009 code: GetCastFunction(*value.type(), out_type, options, &func) No cast implemented from binary to binary {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)