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@iabhi4 iabhi4 commented Jun 1, 2025

Implemented _str_zfill for ArrowExtensionArray to support Series.str.zfill on Arrow-backed string arrays (ArrowDtype(pa.string())). This fixes an AttributeError due to the method relying on _str_map, which wasn't implemented. Used _apply_elementwise to match the approach of other string methods. Added tests under test_string_array.py and confirmed they pass. Also confirmed no other relevant test files are broken and the change aligns with how other string accessors are handled.

@@ -2601,6 +2601,12 @@ def _str_wrap(self, width: int, **kwargs) -> Self:
result = self._apply_elementwise(predicate)
return type(self)(pa.chunked_array(result))

def _str_zfill(self, width: int) -> Self:
# TODO: Replace with pc.utf8_zfill when supported by arrow
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Is there an actual Github issue on the arrow project about utf8_zfill?

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Just created one - apache/arrow#46683

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Can you use this solution apache/arrow#46683 (comment)?

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Can you use this solution apache/arrow#46683 (comment)?

@mroeschke That solution is not clean as it misses an important edge case ('-1', '+1'), I will be working on implementing that dedicated pc.utf8_zfill(array, width) and it will be available to us upstream.

Meanwhile, do you suggest we keep the current implementation with a TODO or should I change this to use pc.utf8_lpad with some custom logic for sign handling?

@iabhi4 iabhi4 force-pushed the bugfix-arrow-str-zfill branch 2 times, most recently from bab4b9a to 1d5c66f Compare June 3, 2025 22:32
@iabhi4 iabhi4 requested a review from mroeschke June 3, 2025 22:36
@iabhi4 iabhi4 force-pushed the bugfix-arrow-str-zfill branch from 82ed761 to 057db65 Compare June 5, 2025 00:51
@iabhi4 iabhi4 force-pushed the bugfix-arrow-str-zfill branch from 057db65 to 5bd175a Compare June 5, 2025 01:00
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BUG: zfill with pyarrow string
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