[ARROW-9429] [Python] ChunkedArray.to_numpy

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25503
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 13/Jul/20 12:05
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:06
• Resolved: 10/Aug/20 12:58

Description

Currently one needs to construct a pandas.Series and call values to get a numpy array as a result of ChunkedArray. We should provide a simpler to_numpy function that doesn't construct the pandas.Series overhead.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ARROW-9401 [C++/Python] Support necessary functionality to have an Arrow-string type in pandas
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7868