Description
Pandas version checks
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Reproducible Example
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'id': [uuid.uuid4(), uuid.uuid4(), uuid.uuid4()]})
>>> df
id
0 6f6303cd-516d-4a27-9165-bb703f9e2240
1 c250ba7f-31db-47de-b02b-54296ac6a4df
2 c523257a-51ab-4160-957b-619ce55c78f9
>>> df.to_parquet('sample_pandas_pa.parquet', engine='pyarrow')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/util/_decorators.py", line 333, in wrapper
return func(*args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.py", line 3113, in to_parquet
return to_parquet(
^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parquet.py", line 480, in to_parquet
impl.write(
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parquet.py", line 190, in write
table = self.api.Table.from_pandas(df, **from_pandas_kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "pyarrow/table.pxi", line 4793, in pyarrow.lib.Table.from_pandas
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py", line 639, in dataframe_to_arrays
arrays = [convert_column(c, f)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py", line 626, in convert_column
raise e
File ".venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py", line 620, in convert_column
result = pa.array(col, type=type_, from_pandas=True, safe=safe)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 365, in pyarrow.lib.array
File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 90, in pyarrow.lib._ndarray_to_array
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 92, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: ("Could not convert UUID('6f6303cd-516d-4a27-9165-bb703f9e2240') with type UUID: did not recognize Python value type when inferring an Arrow data type", 'Conversion failed for column id with type object')Issue Description
Writing UUIDs fail. pyarrow supports writing UUIDs
Expected Behavior
Writing UUIDs pass
Installed Versions
INSTALLED VERSIONS
commit : 0691c5c
python : 3.12.9
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 6.8.0-57-generic
Version : #59~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Mar 19 17:07:41 UTC 2
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8
pandas : 2.2.3
numpy : 2.2.6
pytz : 2025.2
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
pip : None
Cython : None
sphinx : None
IPython : None
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : None
blosc : None
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2025.5.1
html5lib : None
hypothesis : None
gcsfs : None
jinja2 : None
lxml.etree : None
matplotlib : None
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
psycopg2 : None
pymysql : None
pyarrow : 20.0.0
pyreadstat : None
pytest : None
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.15.3
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlsxwriter : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2025.2
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None