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[Python] Add a pyarrow.Table.aggregate function to compute aggregates against the whole table #14896

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@westonpace

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The implementation would be almost identical to pyarrow.TableGroupBy.aggregate except the keys list would be empty. Currently this does not appear to be possible using an empty array of keys:

>>> tab.group_by([]).aggregate([("x", "sum")])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "pyarrow/table.pxi", line 5325, in pyarrow.lib.TableGroupBy.aggregate
  File "pyarrow/_compute.pyx", line 2145, in pyarrow._compute._group_by
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 144, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
  File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 100, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Cannot infer ExecBatch length without at least one value

Even if it were possible, I don't think it would be obvious to obtain the result in this way.

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