timsaucer opened a new issue, #692:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/issues/692
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe
what you are trying to do.**
Currently we can only create a struct of expressions using
`datafusion.functions.struct` which assigns fixed field names of c0, c1, and so
on. This is difficult to work with. In the rust implementation there is a
`named_struct` function which would serve the purpose.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
In an ideal world, the name of the field in a struct would come from the
name of the expression. It would be great to do something like
```
df = df.with_column("d", F.struct(col("a"), col("b"), col("c")))
```
And then the struct would contain field names `a`, `b`, and `c`.
From a brief look at the code this may not be simple to implement. If that
is not feasible, I would at least like to expose the `named_struct` function in
the python code.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
No additional alternatives I have considered beyond the two described above.
**Additional context**
Minimal example showing current state:
```
from datafusion import SessionContext, col, functions as F
import pyarrow as pa
ctx = SessionContext()
batch = pa.RecordBatch.from_arrays(
[pa.array([1, 2, 3]), pa.array([4, 5, 6]), pa.array([7, 8, 9])],
names=["a", "b", "c"],
)
df = ctx.create_dataframe([[batch]])
df = df.with_column("d", F.struct(col("a"), col("b"), col("c")))
df.show()
```
Creates
```
DataFrame()
+---+---+---+-----------------------+
| a | b | c | d |
+---+---+---+-----------------------+
| 1 | 4 | 7 | {c0: 1, c1: 4, c2: 7} |
| 2 | 5 | 8 | {c0: 2, c1: 5, c2: 8} |
| 3 | 6 | 9 | {c0: 3, c1: 6, c2: 9} |
+---+---+---+-----------------------+
```
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