[ARROW-528] [Python] Support _metadata or _common_metadata files when reading Parquet directories

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16167
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 04/Feb/17 23:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:09
• Resolved: 14/Apr/17 16:16

Description

This should go in before 0.2

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-670 Arrow 0.3 release
• is blocked by: PARQUET-953 [C++] Change arrow::FileWriter API to be initialized from a Schema, and provide for writing multiple tables