[ARROW-2154] [Python] __eq__ unimplemented on Buffer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18121
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 14/Feb/18 13:44
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:19
• Resolved: 06/Mar/18 19:21

Description

Having to call equals() is un-Pythonic:

>>> pa.frombuffer(b'foo') == pa.frombuffer(b'foo')
False
>>> pa.frombuffer(b'foo').equals(pa.frombuffer(b'foo'))
True

Same for many other pyarrow types, incidently.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1716