[ARROW-13883] [Python] Allow more than numpy.array as masks when creating arrays

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29500
• Assignee: Alessandro Molina
• Reporter: Alessandro Molina
• Created: 03/Sep/21 08:38
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:36
• Resolved: 14/Oct/21 11:24

Description

At the moment we only allow using numpy arrays for masks when building new arrays. It would be helpful to allow using a pyarrow.Array too so that the user has more flexibility and we can avoid involving numpy in documentation examples for the sole purpose of creating masks.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #11185