[ARROW-4269] [Python] AttributeError: module 'pandas.core' has no attribute 'arrays'

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20845
• Assignee: Philipp Moritz
• Reporter: Philipp Moritz
• Created: 16/Jan/19 00:20
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:32
• Resolved: 16/Jan/19 01:19

Description

This happens with pandas 0.22:

```

In [1]: import pyarrow
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-57968f417579> in <module>()
----> 1 import pyarrow

~/arrow/python/pyarrow/_init_.py in <module>()
174 localfs = LocalFileSystem.get_instance()
175
--> 176 from pyarrow.serialization import (default_serialization_context,
177 register_default_serialization_handlers,
178 register_torch_serialization_handlers)

~/arrow/python/pyarrow/serialization.py in <module>()
303
304
--> 305 register_default_serialization_handlers(_default_serialization_context)

~/arrow/python/pyarrow/serialization.py in register_default_serialization_handlers(serialization_context)
294 custom_deserializer=_deserialize_pyarrow_table)
295
--> 296 _register_custom_pandas_handlers(serialization_context)
297
298

~/arrow/python/pyarrow/serialization.py in _register_custom_pandas_handlers(context)
175 custom_deserializer=_load_pickle_from_buffer)
176
--> 177 if hasattr(pd.core.arrays, 'interval'):
178 context.register_type(
179 pd.core.arrays.interval.IntervalArray,

AttributeError: module 'pandas.core' has no attribute 'arrays'

```

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3410