Wes McKinney created ARROW-5238: ----------------------------------- Summary: [Python] Improve usability of pyarrow.dictionary function Key: ARROW-5238 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5238 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type: Improvement Components: Python Reporter: Wes McKinney Fix For: 0.14.0
{code} >>> pa.dictionary('int8', ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: Argument 'index_type' has incorrect type (expected pyarrow.lib.DataType, got str) >>> pa.dictionary(pa.int8(), ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: Argument 'dict_values' has incorrect type (expected pyarrow.lib.Array, got list) {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)