[ARROW-17139] [Python] Add field() method to get field from StructType

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: good-first-issue
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20328
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
• Created: 20/Jul/22 07:21
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 11:48
• Resolved: 20/Jul/22 07:52

Description

From ARROW-17047:

We could also add a field() method to StructType that returns you a field? (that is more discoverable than [], and would be consistent with a Schema and with StructArray (to get the child array for that field))

Issue Links

• duplicates: ARROW-17131 [Python] add a field() method to StructType that returns the user a field