[Python] Parquet binary statistics that end in '\0' truncate last byte

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This is due to an intermediate step treating them as c-strings.

Reporter: Uwe Korn / @xhochy
Assignee: Uwe Korn / @xhochy

Related issues:

• [C++] Deprecated APIs in parquet-cpp cause pyarrow build failures (is duplicated by)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #2326

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-2911. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Uwe Korn / @xhochy:
This requires a parquet-cpp release to introduce a new API, delaying to 0.11.0.

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Robbie Gruener / @rgruener:
This is likely related to ARROW-2800 ?

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Uwe Korn / @xhochy:
@rgruener no, it's unrelated. Here statistics are set and the Python code also shows them as set but the actual value that is shown in Python is wrong.

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Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou:
Issue resolved by pull request 2326
#2326