[ARROW-515] [Python] Add StreamReader/FileReader methods that read all record batches as a Table

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16156
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 27/Jan/17 00:58
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:09
• Resolved: 27/Jan/17 09:47

Description

In situations where the goal is to obtain a pyarrow.Table containing multiple batches, this will avoid some Python object boxing and unboxing overhead (especially when there are many small record batches).