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Wes McKinney updated ARROW-2913: -------------------------------- Fix Version/s: 0.11.0 > [Python] Exported buffers don't expose type information > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-2913 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2913 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: C++, Python > Affects Versions: 0.10.0 > Reporter: Antoine Pitrou > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.11.0 > > > Using the {{buffers()}} method on array gives you a list of buffers backing > the array, but those buffers lose typing information: > {code:python} > >>> a = pa.array(range(10)) > >>> a.type > DataType(int64) > >>> buffers = a.buffers() > >>> [(memoryview(buf).format, memoryview(buf).shape) for buf in buffers] > [('b', (2,)), ('b', (80,))] > {code} > Conversely, Numpy exposes type information in the Python buffer protocol: > {code:python} > >>> a = pa.array(range(10)) > >>> memoryview(a.to_numpy()).format > 'l' > >>> memoryview(a.to_numpy()).shape > (10,) > {code} > Exposing type information on buffers could be important for third-party > systems, such as Dask/distributed, for type-based data compression when > serializing. > Since our C++ buffers are not typed, it's not obvious how to solve this. > Should we return tensors instead? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)