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Wes McKinney authored 9b1b3979b49
ARROW-461: [Python] Add Python interfaces to DictionaryArray data, pandas interop Author: Wes McKinney <wes.mckinney@twosigma.com> Closes #291 from wesm/ARROW-461 and squashes the following commits: b3efe96 [Wes McKinney] Fix cpp unit test, code review comments 285f863 [Wes McKinney] Accept list input in Array.from_pandas 16aa9d6 [Wes McKinney] Add Categorical conversion for single array or column. Required moving code around a little bit in pandas.cc 3d409e8 [Wes McKinney] First round of DataFrame-level dictionary to Categorical conversion 0b20c38 [Wes McKinney] Draft Python wrapper classes for DictionaryType, DictionaryArray. Avoid segfault when conversion to UTF8 fails. Starting on CategoricalBlock implementation