Data Types
A data type describes the logical type of a value in the table ecosystem. It can be used to declare input and/or output types of Python user-defined functions. Users of the Python Table API work with instances of within the Python Table API or when defining user-defined functions.
A list of all pre-defined data types can be found below.
Data Type and Python Type Mapping
For vectorized Python UDF, the input types and output type are pandas.Series
. The element type of the pandas.Series
corresponds to the specified data type.