[ARROW-12617] [Python] pyarrow.orc.write_table signature reverses that of pyarrow.parquet.write_table

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.1, 5.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Environment: Ubuntu 18.04 ; Python 3.7
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28370
• Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
• Reporter: Simon Perkins
• Created: 30/Apr/21 17:32
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:27
• Resolved: 03/May/21 15:29

Description

The following signatures are inverted and for consistency it would be good for them to align:

pyarrow.parquet.write_table(table, where)
pyarrow.orc.write_table(where, table)

In [1]: import pyarrow.parquet as pa

In [2]: import pyarrow.orc as po

In[3]: pa.write_table?
Signature:
pa.write_table(
    table,
    where,
    row_group_size=None,
    version='1.0',
    use_dictionary=True,
    compression='snappy',
    write_statistics=True,
    use_deprecated_int96_timestamps=None,
    coerce_timestamps=None,
    allow_truncated_timestamps=False,
    data_page_size=None,
    flavor=None,
    filesystem=None,
    compression_level=None,
    use_byte_stream_split=False,
    data_page_version='1.0',
    use_compliant_nested_type=False,
    **kwargs,

In [11]: po.write_table?
Signature: po.write_table(where, table)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10223