[ARROW-10833] [Python] Avoid usage of NumPy's PyArray_DescrCheck macro

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18407
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 07/Dec/20 14:19
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:15
• Resolved: 09/Dec/20 09:41

Description

This is faulty in old versions and this will lead to a lot of issues with the upcoming numpy 1.20 release.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: ARROW-10855 [Python][Numpy] ArrowTypeError after upgrading NumPy to 1.20.0rc1
• is duplicated by: ARROW-11445 Type conversion failure on numpy 0.1.20
• is duplicated by: ARROW-11450 [Python] pyarrow<3 incompatible with numpy>=1.20.0
• is duplicated by: ARROW-11487 [Python] Can't create array from Categorical with numpy 1.20
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8834