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Wes McKinney commented on ARROW-488: ------------------------------------ This seems like it could simply be a casting option for floating point to integer conversions > [Python] Implement conversion between integer coded as floating points with > NaN to an Arrow integer type > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-488 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-488 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Python > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Labels: Analytics > > For example: if pandas has casted integer data to float, this would enable > the integer data to be recovered (so long as the values fall in the ~2^53 > floating point range for exact integer representation) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)