pyarrow.DurationScalar

class pyarrow.DurationScalar

Bases: pyarrow.lib.Scalar

Concrete class for duration scalars.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)
as_py(self)	Return this value as a Pandas Timedelta instance (if units are nanoseconds and pandas is available), otherwise as a Python datetime.timedelta instance.
cast(self, target_type)	Attempt a safe cast to target data type.
equals(self, Scalar other)

Attributes

is_valid	Holds a valid (non-null) value.
type	Data type of the Scalar object.
value

as_py(self)

Return this value as a Pandas Timedelta instance (if units are nanoseconds and pandas is available), otherwise as a Python datetime.timedelta instance.

cast(self, target_type)

Attempt a safe cast to target data type.

Parameters

target_typeDataType or str coercible to DataType

The type to cast the scalar to.

Returns

scalarA Scalar of the given target data type.

equals(self, Scalar other)

is_valid

Holds a valid (non-null) value.

type

Data type of the Scalar object.

value

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