Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-16651:
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Summary: [Python] Casting Table to new schema ignores nullability
of fields
Key: ARROW-16651
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16651
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Python
Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
Similar to ARROW-15478, but not for nested fields but just for casting a full
Table (in theory that could be the same code, but currently the Table.cast
logic is implemented in cython).
So currently when casting a Table to a new schema, the nullability of the
fields in the schema is ignored (and as a result you get an "invalid" schema
indicating a field is non-nullable that actually can have nulls):
{code}
>>> table = pa.table({'a': [None, 1]})
>>> table
pyarrow.Table
a: int64
----
a: [[null,1]]
>>> new_schema = pa.schema([pa.field("a", "int64", nullable=False)])
>>> table.cast(new_schema)
pyarrow.Table
a: int64 not null
----
a: [[null,1]]
{code}
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