[ARROW-2098] [Python] Implement "errors as null" option when coercing Python object arrays to Arrow format

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18072
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 06/Feb/18 14:17
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:18

Description

Inspired by https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48611998/type-error-on-first-steps-with-apache-parquet where the user has a string inside a mostly integer column

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-2967 [Python] Add option to treat invalid PyObject* values as null in pyarrow.array