[ARROW-1222] [Python] pyarrow.array returns NullArray for array of unsupported Python objects

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17039
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 16/Jul/17 19:04
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:13
• Resolved: 17/Jul/17 13:01

Description

In [4]: arr = np.array([datetime.timedelta(1), datetime.timedelta(2)])

In [5]: pa.array(arr)
Out[5]: 
<pyarrow.lib.NullArray object at 0x7fbb612bba48>
[
  NA,
  NA
]