pyarrow.duration#
- pyarrow.duration(unit)#
Create instance of a duration type with unit resolution.
- Parameters:
- unit
str
One of ‘s’ [second], ‘ms’ [millisecond], ‘us’ [microsecond], or ‘ns’ [nanosecond].
- unit
- Returns:
- type
pyarrow.DurationType
- type
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 ]