rok opened a new issue, #47288: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/47288
### Describe the enhancement requested In discussion about [making PyArrow tests numpy independent](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/47255) it came up we could more random array generation kernels to produce random test data for PyArrow (see [RandomArrayGenerator](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/cpp/src/arrow/testing/random.h) for arrow c++ test data generator). Other libraries that use PyArrow could use such kernels too (e.g. Pandas uses NumPy). We have a kernel for producing [random float64s](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/compute.html#random-number-generation) ([PR](https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/11864)), but lack kernels for other types. API-wise we could either expand [RandomOptions](https://arrow.apache.org/docs/cpp/api/compute.html#_CPPv4N5arrow7compute13RandomOptionsE) with parameters for different types and use `pyarrow.compute.random` kernel or provide new kernels e.g. `pyarrow.compute.random_string`. ### Component(s) C++ -- 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: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
