[python-package] Add tests for passing Arrow arrays with empty chunks #6210
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Motivation
Follow-up from #6166. Thanks a lot for proposing this test @jameslamb, it actually caught an error in the C++ code! I'm now ignoring empty chunks as keeping them around would make life hard (
.begin()
couldn't beO(1)
anymore which violates assumptions about iterators).Turns out we just got lucky in #6166 as the chunked array being initialized is contiguous in memory...