Hello Randy, you are looking for https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.foreign_buffer.html#pyarrow.foreign_buffer This takes an address, size and a Python object for having a reference on the object. In your case the last one can be None. Note that this will not do a copy and thus directly reference the shared memory.
Uwe On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Randy Zwitch wrote: > Within OmniSci (MapD), we have the following code that takes a pointer > and length and reads to a NumPy array before calling py_buffer: > > https://github.com/omnisci/pymapd/blob/master/pymapd/shm.pyx#L31-L52 > > Is it possible to eliminate the NumPy step and go directly do an Arrow > buffer? There is both a concern that we're doing an unnecessary memory > copy, as well as wanting to defer to the Arrow way of doing things as > much as possible rather than having our own shims like these. >