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Wes McKinney edited comment on ARROW-1250 at 7/24/17 12:51 AM: --------------------------------------------------------------- I agree. Having a types module might be a good approach, possibly with some functions like {{pyarrow.types.is_integer}}, {{pyarrow.types.is_timestamp}}, etc. was (Author: wesmckinn): I agree. Having a types module might be a good approach, possibly with some functions like {{pyarrow.types.is_integer}}, {{{{pyarrow.types.is_timestamp}}, etc. > [Python] Define API for user type checking of array types > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-1250 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1250 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Python > Reporter: Wes McKinney > > We have some subclasses of {{pyarrow.lib.DataType}}, but we haven't been > designing with the intent of writing {{isinstance(arr.type, > pyarrow.TimestampType)}}. We should think about the public API for such > type-checking or other type of schema validation. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)