[ARROW-3029] [Python] pkg_resources is slow

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/19390
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 09/Aug/18 12:31
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:24
• Resolved: 09/Aug/18 17:49

Description

Importing and calling pkg_resources at pyarrow import time to get the version number is slow (around 200 ms. here, out of 640 ms. total for importing pyarrow).

Instead we could generate a version file, which seems possible using setuptools_scm's write_to parameter: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/#configuration-parameters

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2415