pyarrow.TimestampScalar

class pyarrow.TimestampScalar

Bases: Scalar

Concrete class for timestamp scalars.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

as_py(self)

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