[ARROW-2624] [Python] Random schema and data generator for Arrow conversion and Parquet testing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: parquet pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19021
• Assignee: Krisztian Szucs
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 22/May/18 00:09
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:22
• Resolved: 10/Dec/18 15:43

Description

See discussion in https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/2067

Being able to generate random complex schemas and corresponding example data sets will help with exercising edge cases in many different parts of the codebase. One practical example: reading and writing nested data to Parquet format

Issue Links

• supercedes: ARROW-3901 [Python] Make Schema hashable
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3046