pyarrow.DataType

class pyarrow.DataType

Bases: pyarrow.lib._Weakrefable

Base class of all Arrow data types.

Each data type is an instance of this class.

__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.

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.

pyarrow.from_numpy_dtype pyarrow.DictionaryType