mroeschke opened a new issue, #45341: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45341
### Describe the enhancement requested I figure that when calling `pyarrow.Array.to_pandas`, there's an effort to maintain the zero-copy conversion by making the underlying numpy data not writeable. ```python In [4]: import pyarrow as pa In [5]: import datetime In [6]: pa.array([datetime.datetime(2020, 1, 1)]).to_pandas().array._ndarray.flags Out[6]: C_CONTIGUOUS : True F_CONTIGUOUS : True OWNDATA : False WRITEABLE : False ALIGNED : True WRITEBACKIFCOPY : False ``` It would be nice if there was an option to allow the underlying data writeable like the `writable` option in `to_numpy` ### Component(s) Python -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org