[ARROW-842] [Python] Handle more kinds of null sentinel objects from pandas 0.x

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16449
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 17/Apr/17 01:22
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:11
• Resolved: 25/Jun/20 16:15

Description

Follow-on work to ARROW-707. See https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/pandas/_libs/lib.pyx#L193 and discussion in https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/554

Issue Links

• causes: ARROW-9211 [Python] ArrowInvalid error raised when deserialising pandas with pd.NaT values in object column
• duplicates: ARROW-8115 [Python] Conversion when mixing NaT and datetime objects not working
• duplicates: ARROW-6305 [Python] scalar pd.NaT incorrectly parsed in conversion from Python
• fixes: ARROW-8944 [Python] Pandas - Parquet - Pandas roundtrip causes out of bounds timestamp
• relates to: ARROW-8115 [Python] Conversion when mixing NaT and datetime objects not working
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7537