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Rok Mihevc commented on ARROW-3646: ----------------------------------- This issue has been migrated to [issue #19953|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19953] on GitHub. Please see the [migration documentation|https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14542] for further details. > [Python] Add convenience factories to create IO streams > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-3646 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3646 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Python > Affects Versions: 0.11.0 > Reporter: Antoine Pitrou > Assignee: Antoine Pitrou > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 0.12.0 > > Time Spent: 3h 20m > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Currently, creating IO streams requires invoking various constructors with > irregular names. It would be nice to expose a higher-level interface. > For example: > {code:python} > def open_reader(source, compression='detect'): > """ > Create an Arrow input stream. > Parameters > ---------- > source: str, Path, buffer, file-like object, ... > The source to open for reading > compression: str or None > The compression algorithm to use for on-the-fly decompression. > If 'detect' and source is a file path, then compression will be > chosen based on the file extension. > If None, no compression will be applied. > Otherwise, a well-known algorithm name must be supplied (e.g. "gzip") > """ > def open_writer(source, compression='detect'): > """ > Create an Arrow output stream. > Parameters > ---------- > source: str, Path, buffer, file-like object, ... > The source to open for writing > compression: str or None > The compression algorithm to use for on-the-fly compression. > If 'detect' and source is a file path, then compression will be > chosen based on the file extension. > If None, no compression will be applied. > Otherwise, a well-known algorithm name must be supplied (e.g. "gzip") > """ > {code} > Thoughts? -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)