[Python] Efficient construction of arrays from non-pandas 1D NumPy arrays

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This is follow on work to ARROW-825

Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Wes McKinney / @wesm

Related issues:

• [Python] pyarrow.Array.from_pandas should take a type parameter (is related to)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #1146

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-838. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Made a blocker for 0.3 main to note that the pyarrow.Array.from_numpy should be changed to account for different semantics for data originating from pandas

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
This should include passing in a boolean mask for nulls

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
The scope here is a bit too large for 0.7.0 relative to other more important issues. It will be good to have this soon, though. Moving to the next milestone

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
Issue resolved by pull request 1146
#1146