Currently one needs to construct a pandas.Series and call values to get a numpy array as a result of ChunkedArray. We should provide a simpler to_numpy function that doesn't construct the pandas.Series overhead.

Reporter: Uwe Korn / @xhochy
Assignee: Krisztian Szucs / @kszucs

Related issues:

• [C++/Python] Support necessary functionality to have an Arrow-string type in pandas (is depended upon by)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #7868

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-9429. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}