kou commented on code in PR #46591:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/46591#discussion_r2107956847
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docs/source/python/install.rst:
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@@ -63,6 +63,25 @@ need to install the `Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual
Studio 2015
.. warning::
On Linux, you will need pip >= 19.0 to detect the prebuilt binary packages.
+You may encounter problems writing datetime data to a file if you install
+pyarrow with pip. One process to fix this problem:
+
+ 1. Install tzdata with ``pip install tzdata``
+
+ 2. Set the environmental variable ``TZDIR`` = ``path/to/tzdata``
+
+You can find where ``tzdata`` is installed with the following python
+commands
Review Comment:
```suggestion
commands:
```
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docs/source/python/install.rst:
##########
@@ -63,6 +63,25 @@ need to install the `Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual
Studio 2015
.. warning::
On Linux, you will need pip >= 19.0 to detect the prebuilt binary packages.
+You may encounter problems writing datetime data to a file if you install
+pyarrow with pip. One process to fix this problem:
+
+ 1. Install tzdata with ``pip install tzdata``
+
+ 2. Set the environmental variable ``TZDIR`` = ``path/to/tzdata``
+
+You can find where ``tzdata`` is installed with the following python
+commands
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ >>> import tzdata
+ >>> print(tzdata.__file__)
+ path\to\.venv\Lib\site-packages\tzdata\__init__.py
+
+You only need to set the TZDIR environmental variable to
+``path\to\.venv\Lib\site-packages\tzdata\`` in the above example
Review Comment:
```suggestion
``path\to\.venv\Lib\site-packages\tzdata\`` in the above example.
```
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docs/source/python/install.rst:
##########
@@ -63,6 +63,25 @@ need to install the `Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual
Studio 2015
.. warning::
On Linux, you will need pip >= 19.0 to detect the prebuilt binary packages.
+You may encounter problems writing datetime data to a file if you install
+pyarrow with pip. One process to fix this problem:
+
+ 1. Install tzdata with ``pip install tzdata``
+
+ 2. Set the environmental variable ``TZDIR`` = ``path/to/tzdata``
+
+You can find where ``tzdata`` is installed with the following python
+commands
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ >>> import tzdata
+ >>> print(tzdata.__file__)
+ path\to\.venv\Lib\site-packages\tzdata\__init__.py
+
+You only need to set the TZDIR environmental variable to
Review Comment:
```suggestion
You only need to set the ``TZDIR`` environmental variable to
```
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