pyarrow.ListType¶

class pyarrow.ListType¶

Bases: pyarrow.lib.DataType

Concrete class for list data types.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)¶: Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

`__init__`(args, *kwargs)	Initialize self.
`equals`(self, other)	Return true if type is equivalent to passed value.
`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_children`	The number of child fields.
`num_fields`	The number of child fields.
`value_field`
`value_type`	The data type of list values.

bit_width¶

equals(self, other)¶

Return true if type is equivalent to passed value.

Parameters: other (DataType or string convertible to DataType) –
Returns: is_equal (bool)

id¶

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

num_children¶: The number of child fields.

num_fields¶: The number of child fields.

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

value_field¶

value_type¶: The data type of list values.

pyarrow.DictionaryType pyarrow.MapType