[ARROW-622] [Python] Investigate alternatives to timestamps_to_ms argument in pandas conversion

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16250
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 12/Mar/17 22:35
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:09
• Resolved: 07/Aug/17 23:10

Description

As we add more implicit type coercion options, the approach of adding keyword arguments may add a lot of implementation complexity. Let's think about if there's a better way to handle this that meets the requirements of e.g. Parquet 1.0 file support