pyarrow.UnionType

class pyarrow.UnionType

Bases: pyarrow.lib.DataType

Base class for union data types.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)
equals(self, other)	Return true if type is equivalent to passed value.
to_pandas_dtype(self)	Return the equivalent NumPy / Pandas dtype.

Attributes

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id
mode	The mode of the union ("dense" or "sparse").
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.
type_codes	The type code to indicate each data type in this union.

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equals(self, other)

Return true if type is equivalent to passed value.

Parameters

otherDataType or str convertible to DataType

Returns

is_equalbool

id

mode

The mode of the union (“dense” or “sparse”).

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.

type_codes

The type code to indicate each data type in this union.

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