Re: [DISCUSS][Format] FixedSizeList w/ row-length not specified as part of the type

2019-08-01 Thread Edward Loper
rd has a different size, then I suggest to just use a > > > Struct> where Dim is a struct (or expand in the outer > > > struct). You can probably add your own logic with the recently > > > introduced ExtensionType [1]. > > > > > > François > > > [1] &

Re: [DISCUSS][Format] FixedSizeList w/ row-length not specified as part of the type

2019-07-29 Thread Edward Loper
+ > just a few months ago. > Thanks for the clarification -- I was going based on the blame history for Layout.rst, but I guess it just didn't get officially documented there until the c++ implementation was added. -Edward > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 7:01 AM Edward Loper > wrote: > &

[DISCUSS][Format] FixedSizeList w/ row-length not specified as part of the type

2019-07-29 Thread Edward Loper
The FixedSizeList type, which was added to Arrow a few months ago, is an array where each slot contains a fixed-size sequence of values. It is specified as FixedSizeList[N], where T is a child type and N is a signed int32 that specifies the length of each list. This is useful for encoding fixed-s