[jira] [Comment Edited] (ARROW-2698) [Python] Exception when passing a string to Table.column

["Wes McKinney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Wes McKinney edited comment on ARROW-2698 at 6/11/18 11:29 PM:
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I updated the issue title. This function should be able to accept a string based on a glance at its implementation, so this is a bug


was (Author: wesmckinn):
I updated the issue title. This function should be able to accept a string based on a glance at its implementation

> [Python] Exception when passing a string to Table.column
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARROW-2698
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2698
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Python
>            Reporter: Dominik Moritz
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.10.0
>
>
> https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.Table.html#pyarrow.Table.column says that I can select a column by name. However, I get an error `TypeError: an integer is required`. 
> <ipython-input-16-d22a22c23810> in build_arrow(name)
>      31     print(table.schema)
>      32 
> ---> 33     table.column('ARRIVAL')
>      34 
>      35     writer = pa.RecordBatchFileWriter(f'{name}.arrow', table.schema)
> table.pxi in pyarrow.lib.Table.column()
> TypeError: an integer is required



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