[ARROW-761] [Python] Add function to compute the total size of tensor payloads, including metadata and padding

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16376
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 03/Apr/17 14:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 10/Apr/17 13:47

Description

This will be useful for ensuring that memory maps have enough space available to write out a data structure

cc pcmoritz robertnishihara

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-670 Arrow 0.3 release