[ARROW-1317] [Python] Add function to set Hadoop CLASSPATH

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17341
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Martin Durant
• Created: 02/Aug/17 14:58
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:13
• Resolved: 05/Sep/17 23:17

Description

Getting access to hdfs via libhdfs requires the setting of several environment variables.
Many of these paths should be auto-detectable requiring less or perhaps even no information from the user. This would lower the access barrier to hdfs for a non-dev user.