[GitHub] [arrow] danepitkin commented on a diff in pull request #36130: GH-36129: [Python] Consolidate common APIs in Table and RecordBatch

["danepitkin (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

danepitkin commented on code in PR #36130:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/36130#discussion_r1235377708


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python/pyarrow/table.pxi:
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@@ -1787,6 +1941,35 @@ cdef class _Tabular(_PandasConvertible):
         """
         return _pc().take(self, indices)
 
+    def to_pydict(self):
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+    def to_pylist(self):
+        """
+        Convert the Table or RecordBatch to a list of rows / dictionaries.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        list
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        Table (works similarly for RecordBatch)
+
+        >>> import pyarrow as pa
+        >>> import pandas as pd
+        >>> df = pd.DataFrame({'n_legs': [2, 4, 5, 100],
+        ...                    'animals': ["Flamingo", "Horse", "Brittle stars", "Centipede"]})
+        >>> table = pa.Table.from_pandas(df)
+        >>> table.to_pylist()
+        [{'n_legs': 2, 'animals': 'Flamingo'}, {'n_legs': 4, 'animals': 'Horse'}, ...

Review Comment:
   Yes, great idea! I will update.



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