[ARROW-4480] [Python] Drive letter removed when writing parquet file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: parquet
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/3561
• Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
• Reporter: Seb Fru
• Created: 05/Feb/19 12:38
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:34
• Resolved: 19/Mar/19 12:38

Description

Hi everyone,
 
importing this from Github:
 
I encountered a problem while working with pyarrow: I am working on Windows 10. When I want to save a table using pq.write_table(tab, r'E:\parquetfiles\file1.parquet'), I get the Error "No such file or directory".
 After searching a bit, i found out that the drive letter is getting removed while parsing the where string, but I could not find a way solve my problem: I can write the files on my C:\ drive without problems, but I am not able to write a parquet file on another drive than C:.
Am I doing something wrong or is this just how it works? I would really appreciate any help, because I just cannot fit my files on C: drive.

Issue Links

• is superceded by: ARROW-4559 [Python] pyarrow can't read/write filenames with special characters