[ARROW-15825] [Python] Add a function telling whether Parquet encryption is available

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Parquet, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31266
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 02/Mar/22 10:43
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:39

Description

It would be nice to have a function, e.g. pyarrow.parquet.is_encryption_available(), to be able to query whether Parquet encryption is available in the PyArrow build.

(currently, one would have to import the relevant module and catch the ImportError)

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-9947 [Python][Parquet] High-level Python API for Parquet encryption