[jira] [Updated] (ARROW-6176) [Python] Allow to subclass ExtensionArray to attach to custom extension type

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> [Python] Allow to subclass ExtensionArray to attach to custom extension type
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>
>                 Key: ARROW-6176
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6176
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Python
>            Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>             Fix For: 1.0.0
>
>
> Currently, you can define a custom extension type in Python with 
> {code}
> class UuidType(pa.ExtensionType):
>     def __init__(self):
>         pa.ExtensionType.__init__(self, pa.binary(16))
>     def __reduce__(self):
>         return UuidType, ()
> {code}
> but the array you can create with this is always ExtensionArray. We should provide a way to define a subclass (eg `UuidArray` in this case) that can hold custom logic.
> For example, a user might want to define `UuidArray` such that `arr[i]` returns an instance of Python's `uuid.UUID`
> From https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/4532#pullrequestreview-249396691



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