Re: Dictionary key access in python/generally

2020-10-08 Thread Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt
Thank you both. I hadn't read the IPC documentation closely enough to understand that it supported metadata at the message level. It seems like the best approach in my case is then probably to flush the dataset to separate files as a large number of IPC message batches, and send the schema and the

Re: Dictionary key access in python/generally

2020-10-07 Thread Micah Kornfield
I can't speak to whether Pandas conversion will ever change. Some one else can potentially chime in I don't recall any JIRAs recently changing this type of conversion, however currently for library functionality there aren't any hard guarantees for backwards compatibility (generally we try to do o

Re: Dictionary key access in python/generally

2020-10-07 Thread Jacob Quinn
> > But I'm also attaching table > metadata to each feather, which I'd hate to lose. > Note the arrow format allows attaching custom metadata at the column (field), schema, and message level, so it should be possible to retain any metadata this way. -Jacob On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:38 AM Benjami

Dictionary key access in python/generally

2020-10-07 Thread Benjamin MacDonald Schmidt
Hello, Exciting project, thanks for all your work. I gather it's appropriate to ask a use question here? Assuming so: I have a web application that serves portions of a dataset I've broken into a few thousand featherV2 files structured as a quadtree. The structure makes heavy use of text dictiona