[ARROW-2663] [Python] Make dictionary_encode and unique accesible on Column / ChunkedArray

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19057
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 02/Jun/18 15:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:22
• Resolved: 17/Jul/18 12:31

Description

At the moment, dictionary_encode and unique are only exposed on Array instances but the backing C++ code allows also to pass in the more higher classes. We should add them to the Cython interface so that they can be called from Python code.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2166