pitrou commented on a change in pull request #10199:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10199#discussion_r625647786



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File path: cpp/src/arrow/python/numpy_to_arrow.cc
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@@ -594,7 +594,13 @@ Status NumPyConverter::Visit(const FixedSizeBinaryType& 
type) {
 
   if (mask_ != nullptr) {
     Ndarray1DIndexer<uint8_t> mask_values(mask_);
-    RETURN_NOT_OK(builder.AppendValues(data, length_, mask_values.data()));
+    std::unique_ptr<uint8_t[]> inverted_mask(new uint8_t[length_]);
+    for (int64_t i = 0; i < length_; ++i) {
+      inverted_mask[i] = !mask_values[i];
+    }

Review comment:
       Well, the only place where this is needed is the PyArrow API, and I 
don't even know why we have this `mask` argument (with the confusing convention 
that `true` means "null", which is exactly the reverse of Arrow validity 
bitmaps).
   




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