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Wes McKinney reassigned ARROW-564:
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    Assignee: Florian Rathgeber

> [Python] Add methods to return vanilla NumPy arrays (plus boolean mask array 
> if there are nulls)
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>                 Key: ARROW-564
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-564
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Python
>            Reporter: Wes McKinney
>            Assignee: Florian Rathgeber
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: beginner, pull-request-available
>             Fix For: 0.10.0
>
>          Time Spent: 2h 50m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> At the moment, for {{pyarrow.Array}} instances, we have a method called 
> {{to_pandas}}. While this method returns NumPy Arrays, it returns them in the 
> form that Pandas would use them in its {{Series}}. The difference here is 
> visible for example in the case of integers with null values. For Pandas, we 
> convert it into a float array and set all entries to NaN where we have null 
> entries in the Arrow array. For vanilla NumPy arrays, we would return a tuple 
> of a valid bytemap (not bitmap!) and a values array. The values array in this 
> case should simply be a view on the underlying Arrow buffer.



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