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doc/source/reference/arrays.rst

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`Pyarrow <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/index.html>`__ provides similar array and `data type <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/api/datatypes.html>`__
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support as NumPy including first-class nullability support for all data types, immutability and more.
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.. note::
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For string types (``pyarrow.string()``, ``string[pyarrow]``), PyArrow support is still facilitated
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by :class:`arrays.ArrowStringArray` and ``StringDtype("pyarrow")``. See the :ref:`string section <api.arrays.string>`
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below.
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While individual values in an :class:`arrays.ArrowExtensionArray` are stored as a PyArrow objects, scalars are **returned**
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as Python scalars corresponding to the data type, e.g. a PyArrow int64 will be returned as Python int, or :class:`NA` for missing
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values.

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