jorisvandenbossche commented on issue #49600: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/49600#issuecomment-4134512305
> for the time being, which library to use in the [conversion tests](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/pyarrow/tests/interchange/test_conversion.py) and [documentation examples](https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/docs/source/python/interchange_protocol.rst)? Maybe Polars? For the tests, I would just keep those the same for now, and just suppress the warning. By the time pandas actually removes support, we can re-evaluate (maybe by then pyarrow has also deprecated it) For the docs, it seems polars is already used there as an example. > [@jorisvandenbossche](https://github.com/jorisvandenbossche) I am not sure if there is a plan to have a separate pandas interchange package or that was just an initial idea and pandas plans to completely move away from the protocol? The linked issue first discussed moving it to a separate package, but then got closed by deprecating it instead. So I don't think there is anyone planning to actually maintain this outside of pandas (at least I am not aware of anyone) > How long to keep the implementation of the protocol in PyArrow. I think we should maintain it for a while. There has been not much of maintainance burden so far. I would be inclined to deprecate it as well, but indeed if not much of a burden to keep for now, we can also wait until the upstream protocol / consortium comes with a clearer message about its status. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
