Uwe Korn created ARROW-9407: ------------------------------- Summary: [Python] Accept pd.NA as missing value in array constructor Key: ARROW-9407 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-9407 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: New Feature Components: Python Reporter: Uwe Korn Fix For: 2.0.0
Currently we don't support using {{pandas.NA}} at all: {code} In [1]: import pyarrow as pa In [2]: import pandas as pd In [3]: pa.array([pd.NA, "A"]) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ArrowInvalid Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-3-77e774fa8521> in <module> ----> 1 pa.array([pd.NA, "A"]) ~/miniconda3/envs/fletcher/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyarrow/array.pxi in pyarrow.lib.array() ~/miniconda3/envs/fletcher/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyarrow/array.pxi in pyarrow.lib._sequence_to_array() ~/miniconda3/envs/fletcher/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyarrow/error.pxi in pyarrow.lib.check_status() ArrowInvalid: Could not convert <NA> with type NAType: did not recognize Python value type when inferring an Arrow data type {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)