bmschmidt opened a new issue, #45875: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45875
### Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project. I'm finding a discrepancy in behavior between creating an array directly and casting it. The `safe` argument does not behave the same way in pa.array as in `Array.cast`, although the docs make it seem that they should both allow casting. ```python import pyarrow as pa # works, rounding to 100000000 pa.array([99999999]).cast(pa.float32(), safe=False) # fails pa.array([99999999], pa.float32(), safe=False) ``` Platforms: * Python 3.12.5/OS X/pyarrow 19.0.1 Full output below. ``` Python 3.12.5 (main, Aug 14 2024, 04:32:18) [Clang 18.1.8 ] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import pyarrow as pa; pa.array([99999999]).cast(pa.float32(), safe=False) <pyarrow.lib.FloatArray object at 0x107a44100> [ 100000000 ] >>> pa.array([99999999], pa.float32(), safe=False) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 372, in pyarrow.lib.array File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 42, in pyarrow.lib._sequence_to_array File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 155, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 92, in pyarrow.lib.check_status pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Integer value 99999999 is outside of the range exactly representable by a IEEE 754 single precision value >>> pa.__version__ '19.0.1' ``` ### 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