[ARROW-1782] [Python] Expose compressors as pyarrow.compress, pyarrow.decompress

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17780
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 09/Nov/17 17:27
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:16
• Resolved: 23/Nov/17 14:48

Description

These should release the GIL, and serve as an alternative to the various compressor wrapper libraries out there. They should have the ability to work with pyarrow.Buffer or PyBytes as the user prefers

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1345