[ARROW-16062] [Python] Move libarrow_python include definitions to their own file

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/31478
• Assignee: Raúl Cumplido
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 29/Mar/22 14:18
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:41
• Resolved: 15/Apr/22 15:35

Description

Currently, the API declarations for libarrow_python.so are in libarrow.pxd together with the libarrow.so inclusions. It would probably make more sense to move them to a libarrow_python.pxd file.

Also, it seems some nogil declarations must be fixed for those APIs that actually take/return a PyObject*, or depend on Python C APIs.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12873