[ARROW-9433] [C++/Python] Add option to Take kernel to interpret negative indices as NULL

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C++, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25507
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 13/Jul/20 12:18
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:06

Description

Currently negative integers are explicitly forbidding in the Take kernel. It would be nice to have the option to treat negative integers as NULL instead.

Issue Links

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