pandas.arrays.ArrowExtensionArray

class pandas.arrays.ArrowExtensionArray(values)

Pandas ExtensionArray backed by a PyArrow ChunkedArray.

Warning

ArrowExtensionArray is considered experimental. The implementation and parts of the API may change without warning.

Parameters:

valuespyarrow.Array or pyarrow.ChunkedArray

The input data to initialize the ArrowExtensionArray.

Attributes

None

Methods

None

Returns:

ArrowExtensionArray

See also

array

Create a Pandas array with a specified dtype.

DataFrame.to_feather

Write a DataFrame to the binary Feather format.

read_feather

Load a feather-format object from the file path.

Notes

Most methods are implemented using pyarrow compute functions. Some methods may either raise an exception or raise a PerformanceWarning if an associated compute function is not available based on the installed version of PyArrow.

Please install the latest version of PyArrow to enable the best functionality and avoid potential bugs in prior versions of PyArrow.

Examples

Create an ArrowExtensionArray with pandas.array():

>>> pd.array([1, 1, None], dtype="int64[pyarrow]")
<ArrowExtensionArray>
[1, 1, <NA>]
Length: 3, dtype: int64[pyarrow]