[ARROW-4794] [Python] Make pandas an optional test dependency

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.13.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/21313
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 07/Mar/19 13:29
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:36
• Resolved: 19/Mar/19 17:00

Description

Pandas currently is mandatory to run the python tests which makes it impossible to properly run the test suite without pandas, however pandas is an optional dependency of pyarrow.