pyarrow.duration

pyarrow.duration(unit)

Create instance of a duration type with unit resolution.

Parameters:

unitstr

One of ‘s’ [second], ‘ms’ [millisecond], ‘us’ [microsecond], or ‘ns’ [nanosecond].

Returns:

typepyarrow.DurationType

Examples

Create an instance of duration type:

>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> pa.duration('us')
DurationType(duration[us])
>>> pa.duration('s')
DurationType(duration[s])

Create an array with duration type:

>>> pa.array([0, 1, 2], type=pa.duration('s'))
<pyarrow.lib.DurationArray object at ...>
[
  0,
  1,
  2
]

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