[ARROW-575] Python: Auto-detect nested lists and nested numpy arrays in Pandas

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16210
• Assignee: Uwe Korn
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 22/Feb/17 09:01
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:09
• Resolved: 15/Jul/17 20:58

Description

Currently a user needs to specify an Arrow schema to indicate that a specific column has nested lists, while not simple we should add some auto-detection code for this.

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-1052 Arrow 0.5.0 release