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Jacek Pliszka commented on ARROW-3329:
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Is there a reason why Decimal128 is not declared as numeric type in type_fwd.h
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Naively enabling this + couple config lines should make it work in simple cases.
> [Python] Error casting decimal(38, 4) to int64
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> Key: ARROW-3329
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3329
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Environment: Python version : 3.6.5
> Pyarrow version : 0.10.0
> Reporter: Kavita Sheth
> Priority: Major
>
> Git issue LInk : https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/2627
> I want to cast pyarrow table column from decimal(38,4) to int64.
> col.cast(pa.int64())
> Error:
> File "pyarrow/table.pxi", line 443, in pyarrow.lib.Column.cast
> File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 89, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
> pyarrow.lib.ArrowNotImplementedError: No cast implemented from decimal(38,
> 4) to int64
> Python version : 3.6.5
> Pyarrow version : 0.10.0
> is it not implemented yet or I am not using it correctly? If not implemented
> yet, then any work around to cast columns?
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