[ARROW-2198] [Python] Docstring for parquet.read_table is misleading or incorrect

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18162
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 22/Feb/18 16:58
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:19
• Resolved: 01/Mar/18 04:31

Description

See https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/python/pyarrow/parquet.py#L872

One should be able to pass a Python file object directly. The docstring suggests otherwise

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1654