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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARROW-1250: --------------------------------------- GitHub user wesm opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1183 ARROW-1250: [Python] Add pyarrow.types module with useful type checking functions cc @TomAugspurger @cpcloud @xhochy for review You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/wesm/arrow ARROW-1250 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1183.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1183 ---- commit 3074efb58bd340b7ee1022026c89db670612be5f Author: Wes McKinney <wes.mckin...@twosigma.com> Date: 2017-10-06T21:14:09Z Add pyarrow.types module with useful type checking functions Change-Id: I704f759dbcae160af62029de7e71fc1c53a7b33b commit 2f09c00c452804e73abed434eab84e453c94ce2b Author: Wes McKinney <wes.mckin...@twosigma.com> Date: 2017-10-06T21:16:24Z Remove unused imports Change-Id: I5c70e5e6dc0e2c24ab292d80890174ad62cc0f7c ---- > [Python] Define API for user type checking of array types > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-1250 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1250 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Python > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Assignee: Wes McKinney > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > > We have some subclasses of {{pyarrow.lib.DataType}}, but we haven't been > designing with the intent of writing {{isinstance(arr.type, > pyarrow.TimestampType)}}. We should think about the public API for such > type-checking or other type of schema validation. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)