[ARROW-2292] [Python] More consistent / intuitive name for pyarrow.frombuffer

• 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/18246
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 09/Mar/18 04:25
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:20
• Resolved: 12/Mar/18 18:10

Description

Now that we have pyarrow.foreign_buffer, things are a bit odd. We could call frombuffer something like py_buffer instead?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1736