[ARROW-1389] [Python] Support arbitrary precision integers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17417
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Philipp Moritz
• Created: 21/Aug/17 00:40
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:14
• Resolved: 18/Sep/19 16:18

Description

For Python serialization it would be great if we had Arrow support for arbitrary precision integers, see the comment in

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/de7c6715ba244e119913bfa31b8de46dbbd450bf/python/pyarrow/tests/test_serialization.py#L183

Long integers are for example used in the uuid python module and having this would increase serialization performance for uuids and also make the code cleaner.

I wonder if this is more generally useful too, any thoughts?