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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARROW-2292:
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pitrou commented on a change in pull request #1736: ARROW-2292: [Python] Rename
frombuffer() to py_buffer()
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/1736#discussion_r173853843
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File path: python/pyarrow/io.pxi
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@@ -849,6 +850,15 @@ def frombuffer(object obj):
return pyarrow_wrap_buffer(buf)
+def frombuffer(object obj):
+ """
+ Deprecated alias for `py_buffer`.
+ """
+ warnings.warn("pa.frombuffer() is deprecated, use pa.py_buffer() instead",
+ DeprecationWarning)
Review comment:
Not by default, though it will show up in interactive settings such as
IPython. I can switch to FutureWarning if you prefer.
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> [Python] More consistent / intuitive name for pyarrow.frombuffer
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>
> Key: ARROW-2292
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2292
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
>
> Now that we have {{pyarrow.foreign_buffer}}, things are a bit odd. We could
> call {{frombuffer}} something like {{py_buffer}} instead?
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