[ARROW-1905] [Python] Add more functions for checking exact types in pyarrow.types

• Type: Improvement
• 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/17897
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 07/Dec/17 21:36
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:17
• Resolved: 11/Dec/17 15:09

Description

In https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/pyarrow/types.py, we can check pyarrow.is_date but not whether something is date32 or date64. See discussion in https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/19884#discussion_r155626249

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1410