[ARROW-2157] [Python] Decimal arrays cannot be constructed from Python lists

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18124
• Assignee: Phillip Cloud
• Reporter: Phillip Cloud
• Created: 14/Feb/18 15:55
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:19
• Resolved: 01/Mar/18 22:28

Description

In [14]: pa.array([Decimal('1')])
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ArrowInvalid                              Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-14-458b6561866e> in <module>()
----> 1 pa.array([Decimal('1')])

array.pxi in pyarrow.lib.array()

array.pxi in pyarrow.lib._sequence_to_array()

error.pxi in pyarrow.lib.check_status()

ArrowInvalid: Error inferring Arrow data type for collection of Python objects. Got Python object of type Decimal but can only handle these types: bool, float, integer, date, datetime, bytes, unicode