ARROW-2680: [Python] Add documentation about type inference in Table.from_pandas #2116
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| Be aware that Series of the `object` dtype don't carry enough | ||
| information to always lead to a meaningful Arrow type. In the case | ||
| that we cannot infer a type, e.g. because the DataFrame is of length 0 | ||
| or the Series only contains None/nan objects the type is set to null. |
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It would be helpful to note that this behavior can be circumvented by passing an explicit schema, I will make this small tweak
…from_pandas Add note about passing explicit schema
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