Hi Micah, I was trying to create an Int64Builder class but kept getting a type identifier error. So, I did a bit of digging and realized I was looking at the latest commit of libarrow.pxd on GitHub which wasn't actually released as part of 0.15.1.
Thanks for your help anyways! Suhail On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 11:20 PM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Suhail, > I'm not sure there are any convenience function to initialize an > ArrayBuilder class from an existing Array. But I imagine you should be > able to use the cython definitions in > "python//pyarrow/includes/libarrow.pxd" and use it in the way you > describe. It might help if you can provide a pointer to minimal code > sample. > > Thanks, > Micah > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Suhail Razzak <suhail.raz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to create arrays from an existing array but I'm not sure how > > exactly to do it. I tried using the ArrayBuilder class, but I keep > getting > > compiler errors when trying to instantiate one... > > > > So I have a couple questions then: > > > > 1. How would I instantiate and use an ArrayBuilder class? > > 2. Would I build it the same as the C++ way? I.e. builder.get().Append() > > and then builder.get().Finish(new_array)? > > 3. How can I access the underlying data of an Array? I keep getting an > > IndexError when trying array.get().data()[i] > > > > I'm kind of new to Cython too, sorry if this seems dumb. > > > > Thanks, > > Suhail > > > -- Regards, Suhail
