pyarrow.duration#

pyarrow.duration(unit)#

Create instance of a duration type with unit resolution.

Parameters:

unitstr

One of ‘s’ [second], ‘ms’ [millisecond], ‘us’ [microsecond], or‘ns’ [nanosecond].

Returns:

typepyarrow.DurationType

Examples

Create an instance of duration type:

>>>importpyarrowaspa>>>pa.duration('us')DurationType(duration[us])>>>pa.duration('s')DurationType(duration[s])

Create an array with duration type:

>>>pa.array([0,1,2],type=pa.duration('s'))<pyarrow.lib.DurationArray object at ...>[  0,  1,  2]