[ARROW-6878] [Python] pa.array() does not handle list of dicts with bytes keys correctly under python3

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.1, 0.16.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23206
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Zhuo Peng
• Created: 14/Oct/19 18:46
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:50
• Resolved: 17/Oct/19 19:01

Description

It creates sub-arrays with nulls filled, instead of the provided values.

$ python

Python 3.6.8 (default, Jan 3 2019, 03:42:36)
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
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>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> pa._version_
'0.15.0'
>>> a = pa.array([{b"a": [1, 2, 3]}])
>>> a
<pyarrow.lib.StructArray object at 0x7fdcb4c28168>
– is_valid: all not null
– child 0 type: list<item: int64>
[
null
]
>>> a = pa.array([{"a": [1, 2, 3]}])
>>> a
<pyarrow.lib.StructArray object at 0x7fdcb4c28108>
– is_valid: all not null
– child 0 type: list<item: int64>
[
[
1,
2,
3
]
]

 

It works under python2.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5652