[Python] Support construction of Run-End Encoded arrays in pa.array(..) #40273
Description
Describe the enhancement requested
We want to enable the construction of a Run-End Encoded arrays with pyarrow.array constructor. Example:
>>> arr = [1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3]
>>> ree_arr = pc.run_end_encode(arr)
>>> pa.array(arr, type=ree_type) # Fails
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 343, in pyarrow.lib.array
result = _sequence_to_array(obj, mask, size, type, pool, c_from_pandas)
File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 42, in pyarrow.lib._sequence_to_array
chunked = GetResultValue(
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
return check_status(status)
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
raise convert_status(status)
pyarrow.lib.ArrowNotImplementedError: run_end_encodedComponent(s)
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