[ARROW-1605] [Python] pyarrow.array should be able to yield smaller integer types without an explicit cast

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17618
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 24/Sep/17 20:32
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:15
• Resolved: 02/Oct/17 02:01

Description

e.g. pyarrow.array([1, 2, 3], type='int8')