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+<h1>pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream<a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow-compressedoutputstream" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
+<dl class="class">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream">
+<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">pyarrow.</code><code class="descname">CompressedOutputStream</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>NativeFile stream</em>, <em>compression</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow.lib.NativeFile</span></code></p>
+<p>An output stream wrapper which compresses data on the fly.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple">
+<li><strong>stream</strong> (<em>pa.NativeFile</em>) – </li>
+<li><strong>compression</strong> (<em>str</em>) – The compression type (“bz2”, “brotli”, “gzip”, “lz4”, “snappy”
+or “zstd”)</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.__init__">
+<code class="descname">__init__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.__init__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Initialize self.  See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<p class="rubric">Methods</p>
+<table border="1" class="longtable docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="10%" />
+<col width="90%" />
+</colgroup>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.close" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.close"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">close</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.download" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.download"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">download</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;stream_or_path[,&nbsp;buffer_size])</td>
+<td>Read file completely to local path (rather than reading completely into memory).</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.fileno" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.fileno"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fileno</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>NOT IMPLEMENTED</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.flush" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.flush"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">flush</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Flush the buffer stream, if applicable.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.isatty" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.isatty"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isatty</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read</span></code></a>(self[,&nbsp;nbytes])</td>
+<td>Read indicated number of bytes from file, or read all remaining bytes if no argument passed</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read1" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read1"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read1</span></code></a>(self[,&nbsp;nbytes])</td>
+<td>Read and return up to n bytes.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read_buffer" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read_buffer"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">read_buffer</span></code></a>(self[,&nbsp;nbytes])</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readable" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readable"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readable</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readall" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readall"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readall</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readinto" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readinto"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readinto</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;b)</td>
+<td>Read into the supplied buffer</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readline" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readline"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readline</span></code></a>(self[,&nbsp;size])</td>
+<td>NOT IMPLEMENTED.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readlines" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.readlines"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readlines</span></code></a>(self[,&nbsp;hint])</td>
+<td>NOT IMPLEMENTED.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.seek" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.seek"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">seek</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;int64_t&nbsp;position,&nbsp;int&nbsp;whence=0)</td>
+<td>Change current file stream position</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.seekable" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.seekable"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">seekable</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.size" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.size"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">size</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Return file size</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.tell" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.tell"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tell</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Return current stream position</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.truncate" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.truncate"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">truncate</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>NOT IMPLEMENTED</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.upload" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.upload"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">upload</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;stream[,&nbsp;buffer_size])</td>
+<td>Pipe file-like object to file</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.writable" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.writable"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writable</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.write" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.write"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">write</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;data)</td>
+<td>Write byte from any object implementing buffer protocol (bytes, bytearray, ndarray, pyarrow.Buffer)</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.writelines" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.writelines"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writelines</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;lines)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p class="rubric">Attributes</p>
+<table border="1" class="longtable docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="10%" />
+<col width="90%" />
+</colgroup>
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.closed" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.closed"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">closed</span></code></a></td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.mode" title="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.mode"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mode</span></code></a></td>
+<td>binary read * wb: binary write * rb+: binary read and write</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.close">
+<code class="descname">close</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="attribute">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.closed">
+<code class="descname">closed</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.closed" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.download">
+<code class="descname">download</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>stream_or_path</em>, <em>buffer_size=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.download" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Read file completely to local path (rather than reading completely into
+memory). First seeks to the beginning of the file.</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.fileno">
+<code class="descname">fileno</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.fileno" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>NOT IMPLEMENTED</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.flush">
+<code class="descname">flush</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.flush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Flush the buffer stream, if applicable.</p>
+<p>No-op to match the IOBase interface.</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.isatty">
+<code class="descname">isatty</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.isatty" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="attribute">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.mode">
+<code class="descname">mode</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.mode" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>binary read
+* wb: binary write
+* rb+: binary read and write</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Type:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first">The file mode. Currently instances of NativeFile may support</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Type:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple">
+<li>rb</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read">
+<code class="descname">read</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>nbytes=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.CompressedOutputStream.read" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Read indicated number of bytes from file, or read all remaining bytes
+if no argument passed</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
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+  <div class="section" id="pyarrow-datatype">
+<h1>pyarrow.DataType<a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow-datatype" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
+<dl class="class">
+<dt id="pyarrow.DataType">
+<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">pyarrow.</code><code class="descname">DataType</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.DataType" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">object</span></code></p>
+<p>Base type for Apache Arrow data type instances. Wraps C++ arrow::DataType</p>
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.DataType.__init__">
+<code class="descname">__init__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.DataType.__init__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Initialize self.  See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.</p>
+</dd></dl>
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+<p class="rubric">Methods</p>
+<table border="1" class="longtable docutils">
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+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.DataType.to_pandas_dtype" title="pyarrow.DataType.to_pandas_dtype"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">to_pandas_dtype</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Return the NumPy dtype that would be used for storing this</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p class="rubric">Attributes</p>
+<table border="1" class="longtable docutils">
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+<col width="10%" />
+<col width="90%" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.DataType.bit_width" title="pyarrow.DataType.bit_width"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bit_width</span></code></a></td>
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+  <div class="section" id="pyarrow-date32array">
+<h1>pyarrow.Date32Array<a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow-date32array" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
+<dl class="class">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array">
+<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">pyarrow.</code><code class="descname">Date32Array</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Bases: <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow.lib.NumericArray</span></code></p>
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.__init__">
+<code class="descname">__init__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.__init__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Initialize self.  See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.</p>
+</dd></dl>
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+<p class="rubric">Methods</p>
+<table border="1" class="longtable docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="10%" />
+<col width="90%" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.buffers" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.buffers"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">buffers</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Return a list of Buffer objects pointing to this array’s physical storage.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.cast" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.cast"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cast</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;target_type,&nbsp;bool&nbsp;safe=True)</td>
+<td>Cast array values to another data type.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.dictionary_encode" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.dictionary_encode"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dictionary_encode</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Compute dictionary-encoded representation of array</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.equals" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.equals"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">equals</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;Array&nbsp;other)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.format" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.format"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">format</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;int&nbsp;indent=0,&nbsp;int&nbsp;window=10)</td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.from_buffers" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.from_buffers"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">from_buffers</span></code></a>(DataType&nbsp;type,&nbsp;length,&nbsp;buffers)</td>
+<td>Construct an Array from a sequence of buffers.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.from_pandas" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.from_pandas"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">from_pandas</span></code></a>(obj[,&nbsp;mask,&nbsp;type])</td>
+<td>Convert pandas.Series to an Arrow Array, using pandas’s semantics about what values indicate nulls.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.isnull" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.isnull"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isnull</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td></td>
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+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.slice" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.slice"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">slice</span></code></a>(self[,&nbsp;offset,&nbsp;length])</td>
+<td>Compute zero-copy slice of this array</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.to_numpy" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.to_numpy"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">to_numpy</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Experimental: return a NumPy view of this array.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pandas" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pandas"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">to_pandas</span></code></a>(self,&nbsp;…)</td>
+<td>Convert to a NumPy array object suitable for use in pandas.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pylist" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pylist"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">to_pylist</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Convert to a list of native Python objects.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.unique" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.unique"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unique</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Compute distinct elements in array</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.validate" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.validate"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">validate</span></code></a>(self)</td>
+<td>Perform any validation checks implemented by arrow::ValidateArray.</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p class="rubric">Attributes</p>
+<table border="1" class="longtable docutils">
+<colgroup>
+<col width="10%" />
+<col width="90%" />
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+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.null_count" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.null_count"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">null_count</span></code></a></td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.offset" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.offset"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code></a></td>
+<td>A relative position into another array’s data, to enable zero-copy slicing.</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference internal" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.type" title="pyarrow.Date32Array.type"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">type</span></code></a></td>
+<td></td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.buffers">
+<code class="descname">buffers</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.buffers" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Return a list of Buffer objects pointing to this array’s physical
+storage.</p>
+<p>To correctly interpret these buffers, you need to also apply the offset
+multiplied with the size of the stored data type.</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.cast">
+<code class="descname">cast</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>target_type</em>, <em>bool safe=True</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.cast" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Cast array values to another data type.</p>
+<p class="rubric">Example</p>
+<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">pyarrow</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">pa</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">arr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">pa</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">array</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2010</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2015</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)])</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">arr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">type</span>
+<span class="go">TimestampType(timestamp[us])</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>You can use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow.DataType</span></code> objects to specify the target type:</p>
+<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">arr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cast</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">pa</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;ms&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span>
+<span class="go">&lt;pyarrow.lib.TimestampArray object at 0x10420eb88&gt;</span>
+<span class="go">[</span>
+<span class="go">  1262304000000,</span>
+<span class="go">  1420070400000</span>
+<span class="go">]</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">arr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cast</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">pa</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;ms&#39;</span><span class="p">))</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">type</span>
+<span class="go">TimestampType(timestamp[ms])</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Alternatively, it is also supported to use the string aliases for these
+types:</p>
+<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">arr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cast</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;timestamp[ms]&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
+<span class="go">&lt;pyarrow.lib.TimestampArray object at 0x10420eb88&gt;</span>
+<span class="go">[</span>
+<span class="go">  1262304000000,</span>
+<span class="go">  1420070400000</span>
+<span class="go">]</span>
+<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">arr</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cast</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;timestamp[ms]&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">type</span>
+<span class="go">TimestampType(timestamp[ms])</span>
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple">
+<li><strong>target_type</strong> (<a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.DataType.html#pyarrow.DataType" title="pyarrow.DataType"><em>DataType</em></a>) – Type to cast to</li>
+<li><strong>safe</strong> (<em>boolean</em><em>, </em><em>default True</em>) – Check for overflows or other unsafe conversions</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last"><strong>casted</strong> (<em>Array</em>)</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.dictionary_encode">
+<code class="descname">dictionary_encode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.dictionary_encode" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Compute dictionary-encoded representation of array</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.equals">
+<code class="descname">equals</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>Array other</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.equals" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.format">
+<code class="descname">format</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>int indent=0</em>, <em>int window=10</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="staticmethod">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.from_buffers">
+<em class="property">static </em><code class="descname">from_buffers</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>DataType type</em>, <em>length</em>, <em>buffers</em>, <em>null_count=-1</em>, <em>offset=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.from_buffers" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Construct an Array from a sequence of buffers.  The concrete type
+returned depends on the datatype.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple">
+<li><strong>type</strong> (<a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.DataType.html#pyarrow.DataType" title="pyarrow.DataType"><em>DataType</em></a>) – The value type of the array</li>
+<li><strong>length</strong> (<em>int</em>) – The number of values in the array</li>
+<li><strong>buffers</strong> (<em>List</em><em>[</em><a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.Buffer.html#pyarrow.Buffer" title="pyarrow.Buffer"><em>Buffer</em></a><em>]</em>) – The buffers backing this array</li>
+<li><strong>null_count</strong> (<em>int</em><em>, </em><em>default -1</em>) – </li>
+<li><strong>offset</strong> (<em>int</em><em>, </em><em>default 0</em>) – The array’s logical offset (in values, not in bytes) from the
+start of each buffer</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last"><strong>array</strong> (<em>Array</em>)</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="staticmethod">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.from_pandas">
+<em class="property">static </em><code class="descname">from_pandas</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>obj</em>, <em>mask=None</em>, <em>type=None</em>, <em>bool safe=True</em>, <em>MemoryPool memory_pool=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.from_pandas" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Convert pandas.Series to an Arrow Array, using pandas’s semantics about
+what values indicate nulls. See pyarrow.array for more general
+conversion from arrays or sequences to Arrow arrays.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple">
+<li><strong>sequence</strong> (<em>ndarray</em><em>, </em><em>Inded Series</em>) – </li>
+<li><strong>mask</strong> (<em>array</em><em> (</em><em>boolean</em><em>)</em><em>, </em><em>optional</em>) – Indicate which values are null (True) or not null (False)</li>
+<li><strong>type</strong> (<a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.DataType.html#pyarrow.DataType" title="pyarrow.DataType"><em>pyarrow.DataType</em></a>) – Explicit type to attempt to coerce to, otherwise will be inferred
+from the data</li>
+<li><strong>safe</strong> (<em>boolean</em><em>, </em><em>default True</em>) – Check for overflows or other unsafe conversions</li>
+<li><strong>memory_pool</strong> (<a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.MemoryPool.html#pyarrow.MemoryPool" title="pyarrow.MemoryPool"><em>pyarrow.MemoryPool</em></a><em>, </em><em>optional</em>) – If not passed, will allocate memory from the currently-set default
+memory pool</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<p class="rubric">Notes</p>
+<p>Localized timestamps will currently be returned as UTC (pandas’s native
+representation).  Timezone-naive data will be implicitly interpreted as
+UTC.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="simple">
+<li><strong>array</strong> (<em>pyarrow.Array or pyarrow.ChunkedArray (if object data</em>)</li>
+<li><em>overflows binary buffer)</em></li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.isnull">
+<code class="descname">isnull</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.isnull" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="attribute">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.null_count">
+<code class="descname">null_count</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.null_count" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="attribute">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.offset">
+<code class="descname">offset</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.offset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>A relative position into another array’s data, to enable zero-copy
+slicing. This value defaults to zero but must be applied on all
+operations with the physical storage buffers.</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.slice">
+<code class="descname">slice</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>offset=0</em>, <em>length=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.slice" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Compute zero-copy slice of this array</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first simple">
+<li><strong>offset</strong> (<em>int</em><em>, </em><em>default 0</em>) – Offset from start of array to slice</li>
+<li><strong>length</strong> (<em>int</em><em>, </em><em>default None</em>) – Length of slice (default is until end of Array starting from
+offset)</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first last"><strong>sliced</strong> (<em>RecordBatch</em>)</p>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.to_numpy">
+<code class="descname">to_numpy</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.to_numpy" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Experimental: return a NumPy view of this array. Only primitive
+arrays with the same memory layout as NumPy (i.e. integers,
+floating point), without any nulls, are supported.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>array</strong> (<em>numpy.ndarray</em>)</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pandas">
+<code class="descname">to_pandas</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em>, <em>bool strings_to_categorical=False</em>, <em>bool zero_copy_only=False</em>, <em>bool integer_object_nulls=False</em>, <em>bool date_as_object=False</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pandas" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Convert to a NumPy array object suitable for use in pandas.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple">
+<li><strong>strings_to_categorical</strong> (<em>boolean</em><em>, </em><em>default False</em>) – Encode string (UTF8) and binary types to pandas.Categorical</li>
+<li><strong>zero_copy_only</strong> (<em>boolean</em><em>, </em><em>default False</em>) – Raise an ArrowException if this function call would require copying
+the underlying data</li>
+<li><strong>integer_object_nulls</strong> (<em>boolean</em><em>, </em><em>default False</em>) – Cast integers with nulls to objects</li>
+<li><strong>date_as_object</strong> (<em>boolean</em><em>, </em><em>default False</em>) – Cast dates to objects</li>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+<div class="admonition seealso">
+<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
+<p class="last"><a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.Column.html#pyarrow.Column.to_pandas" title="pyarrow.Column.to_pandas"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Column.to_pandas()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.Table.html#pyarrow.Table.to_pandas" title="pyarrow.Table.to_pandas"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Table.to_pandas()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="pyarrow.RecordBatch.html#pyarrow.RecordBatch.to_pandas" title="pyarrow.RecordBatch.to_pandas"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">RecordBatch.to_pandas()</span></code></a></p>
+</div>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pylist">
+<code class="descname">to_pylist</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.to_pylist" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Convert to a list of native Python objects.</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>lst</strong> (<em>list</em>)</td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="attribute">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.type">
+<code class="descname">type</code><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.type" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd></dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.unique">
+<code class="descname">unique</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.unique" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Compute distinct elements in array</p>
+</dd></dl>
+
+<dl class="method">
+<dt id="pyarrow.Date32Array.validate">
+<code class="descname">validate</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>self</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#pyarrow.Date32Array.validate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Perform any validation checks implemented by
+arrow::ValidateArray. Raises exception with error message if array does
+not validate</p>
+<table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
+<col class="field-name" />
+<col class="field-body" />
+<tbody valign="top">
+<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Raises:</th><td class="field-body"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ArrowInvalid</span></code></td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>
+</dd></dl>
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