[WIP] [Python] Support 64 bit indices for pyarrow.serialize and pyarrow.deserialize

[pcmoritz]

This is currently based off #3848

[emkornfield]

@pitrou I think you have a similar PR for python? Can this be closed?

[pitrou]

@emkornfield I don't think so. But perhaps something similar was merged recently?

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #3858 into master will increase coverage by 0.39%.
The diff coverage is 83.02%.

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##           master    #3858      +/-   ##
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+ Coverage   87.46%   87.85%   +0.39%     
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  Files         994      625     -369     
  Lines      140389    67612   -72777     
  Branches     1418     1252     -166     
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- Hits       122788    59400   -63388     
+ Misses      17239     8095    -9144     
+ Partials      362      117     -245

Impacted Files	Coverage Δ
cpp/src/arrow/type_traits.h	91.8% <ø> (+7.18%)	⬆️
cpp/src/arrow/visitor.h	66.66% <ø> (+16.66%)	⬆️
cpp/src/arrow/visitor_inline.h	93.67% <ø> (+4.88%)	⬆️
cpp/src/arrow/pretty_print.cc	80.29% <ø> (-3.05%)	⬇️
cpp/src/gandiva/expression_registry.cc	81.92% <ø> (-8.68%)	⬇️
cpp/src/arrow/array/builder_union.cc	2.5% <0%> (-89.81%)	⬇️
cpp/src/arrow/array/builder_union.h	0% <0%> (-80.96%)	⬇️
cpp/src/arrow/visitor.cc	0% <0%> (ø)	⬆️
cpp/src/parquet/arrow/writer.cc	92.52% <0%> (-4.19%)	⬇️
cpp/src/arrow/array/builder_nested.h	100% <100%> (ø)	⬆️
... and 891 more

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[emkornfield]

This looks like it has gotten pretty stale, I'm going to close it, please @pcmoritz please reopen when you have time to work on it.