ak.to_arrow¶

Defined in awkward.operations.convert on line 1986.

ak.to_arrow(array, list_to32=False, string_to32=True, bytestring_to32=True, allow_tensor=True)¶

Parameters

array – Data to convert to an Apache Arrow array.
list_to32 (bool) – If True, convert Awkward lists into 32-bit Arrow lists if they’re small enough, even if it means an extra conversion. Otherwise, signed 32-bit ak.layout.ListOffsetArray maps to Arrow ListType and all others map to Arrow LargeListType.
string_to32 (bool) – Same as the above for Arrow string and large_string.
bytestring_to32 (bool) – Same as the above for Arrow binary and large_binary.
allow_tensor (bool) – If True, convert regular-length lists to pyarrow.lib.Tensor; otherwise, make pyarrow.lib.ListArray (generating offsets). This is used by ak.to_parquet, since Parquet files can’t contain regular-length tensors.

Converts an Awkward Array into an Apache Arrow array.

This produces arrays of type pyarrow.Array. You might need to further manipulations (using the pyarrow library) to build a pyarrow.ChunkedArray, a pyarrow.RecordBatch, or a pyarrow.Table.

Arrow arrays can maintain the distinction between “option-type but no elements are missing” and “not option-type” at all levels except the top level. Also, there is no distinction between ?union[X, Y, Z]] type and union[?X, ?Y, ?Z] type. Be aware of these type distinctions when passing data through Arrow or Parquet.