pyarrow.StructType¶

class pyarrow.StructType¶

Bases: DataType

Concrete class for struct data types.

StructType supports direct indexing using [...] (implemented via __getitem__) to access its fields. It will return the struct field with the given index or name.

Examples

>>> import pyarrow as pa

Accessing fields using direct indexing:

>>> struct_type = pa.struct({'x': pa.int32(), 'y': pa.string()})
>>> struct_type[0]
pyarrow.Field<x: int32>
>>> struct_type['y']
pyarrow.Field<y: string>

Accessing fields using field():

>>> struct_type.field(1)
pyarrow.Field<y: string>
>>> struct_type.field('x')
pyarrow.Field<x: int32>

# Creating a schema from the struct type’s fields: >>> pa.schema(list(struct_type)) x: int32 y: string

__init__(*args, **kwargs)¶

Methods

`__init__`(args, *kwargs)
`equals`(self, other, *[, check_metadata])	Return true if type is equivalent to passed value.
`field`(self, i)	Select a field by its column name or numeric index.
`get_all_field_indices`(self, name)	Return sorted list of indices for the fields with the given name.
`get_field_index`(self, name)	Return index of the unique field with the given name.
`to_pandas_dtype`(self)	Return the equivalent NumPy / Pandas dtype.

Attributes

`bit_width`
`id`
`num_buffers`	Number of data buffers required to construct Array type excluding children.
`num_fields`	The number of child fields.

bit_width¶

equals(self, other, *, check_metadata=False)¶

Return true if type is equivalent to passed value.

Parameters:

otherDataType or str convertible to DataType
check_metadatabool: Whether nested Field metadata equality should be checked as well.

Returns:

is_equalbool

field(self, i) → Field¶

Select a field by its column name or numeric index.

Parameters:

iint or str

Returns:

pyarrow.Field

Examples

>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> struct_type = pa.struct({'x': pa.int32(), 'y': pa.string()})

Select the second field:

>>> struct_type.field(1)
pyarrow.Field<y: string>

Select the field named ‘x’:

>>> struct_type.field('x')
pyarrow.Field<x: int32>

get_all_field_indices(self, name)¶

Return sorted list of indices for the fields with the given name.

Parameters:

namestr: The name of the field to look up.

Returns:

indicesList[int]

get_field_index(self, name)¶

Return index of the unique field with the given name.

Parameters:

namestr: The name of the field to look up.

Returns:

indexint: The index of the field with the given name; -1 if the name isn’t found or there are several fields with the given name.

id¶

num_buffers¶: Number of data buffers required to construct Array type excluding children.

num_fields¶: The number of child fields.

to_pandas_dtype(self)¶: Return the equivalent NumPy / Pandas dtype.

pyarrow.MapType

pyarrow.UnionType