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Wes McKinney updated ARROW-8945:
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Description:
I've been thinking it would be useful to have a minimal Cython package, call it
"cyarrow", containing some pxd files and a small amount of compiled pyx code
(using a C compiler only) that enables projects written in Cython to interact
with Arrow datasets in minimal ways (for example, iterating over their values,
interacting with dictionary-encoded/categorical arrays) that don't amount to
reimplementation of the "hard stuff" where they would want to utilize pyarrow
or the C++ library instead. Otherwise, every Python project that has compiled
code in Cython and wants to use the C interface would have to create their own
minimal implementation.
Target user for this project would be Python projects like scikit-learn that
are mostly written in Cython
was:I've been thinking it would be useful to have a minimal Cython package,
call it "cyarrow", containing some pxd files and a small amount of compiled pyx
code (using a C compiler only) that enables projects written in Cython to
interact with Arrow datasets in minimal ways (for example, iterating over their
values, interacting with dictionary-encoded/categorical arrays) that don't
amount to reimplementation of the "hard stuff" where they would want to utilize
pyarrow or the C++ library instead. Otherwise, every Python project that has
compiled code in Cython and wants to use the C interface would have to create
their own minimal implementation.
> [Python] An independent Cython package for Cython-based projects that want to
> program against the C data interface
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> Key: ARROW-8945
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8945
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Priority: Major
>
> I've been thinking it would be useful to have a minimal Cython package, call
> it "cyarrow", containing some pxd files and a small amount of compiled pyx
> code (using a C compiler only) that enables projects written in Cython to
> interact with Arrow datasets in minimal ways (for example, iterating over
> their values, interacting with dictionary-encoded/categorical arrays) that
> don't amount to reimplementation of the "hard stuff" where they would want to
> utilize pyarrow or the C++ library instead. Otherwise, every Python project
> that has compiled code in Cython and wants to use the C interface would have
> to create their own minimal implementation.
> Target user for this project would be Python projects like scikit-learn that
> are mostly written in Cython
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