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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-2443:
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This issue has been migrated to [issue
#18577|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18577] on GitHub. Please see the
[migration documentation|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542] for
further details.
> [Python] Conversion from pandas of empty categorical fails with ArrowInvalid
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>
> Key: ARROW-2443
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2443
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0
> Reporter: Florian Jetter
> Assignee: Uwe Korn
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 0.10.0
>
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> The conversion of an empty pandas categorical raises an exception. Before
> version `0.9.0` this was possible
> {code:java}
> import pandas as pd
> import pyarrow as pa
> pa.Table.from_pandas(pd.DataFrame({'cat': pd.Categorical([])})){code}
> raises:
> {{ArrowInvalid: Dictionary indices must have non-zero length}}
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