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Wes McKinney authored 619472ec0a6
ARROW-1225: [Python] Decode bytes to utf8 unicode if possible when passing explicit utf8 type to pyarrow.array Author: Wes McKinney <wes.mckinney@twosigma.com> Closes #946 from wesm/ARROW-1225 and squashes the following commits: aa737b11 [Wes McKinney] Clearer error message 2f439285 [Wes McKinney] Decode bytes to utf8 unicode if possible when passing explicit utf8 type in pyarrow.array