[ARROW-1684] [Python] Simplify user API for reading nested Parquet columns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17693
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 18/Oct/17 14:30
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:16
• Resolved: 29/Nov/17 01:07

Description

It is not necessarily intuitive for users to have to specify the complete path to the leaf in the Parquet schema. See https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/1207

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1207
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1366