Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-6779: --------------------------------------------
Summary: [Python] Conversion from datetime.datetime to timstamp('ns') can overflow Key: ARROW-6779 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6779 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: Python Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche In the python conversion of datetime scalars, there is no check for integer overflow: {code} In [32]: pa.array([datetime.datetime(3000, 1, 1)], pa.timestamp('ns')) Out[32]: <pyarrow.lib.TimestampArray object at 0x7f5bddec00a8> [ 1830-11-23 00:50:52.580896768 ] {code} So in case the target type has nanosecond unit, this can give wrong results (I don't think the other resolutions can reach overflow, given the limited range of years of datetime.datetime). We should probably check for this case and raise an error. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)