[ARROW-6390] [Python][Flight] Add Python documentation / tutorial for Flight

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation, FlightRPC, Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22763
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 30/Aug/19 04:37
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:46

Description

There is no Sphinx documentation for using Flight from Python. I have found that writing documentation is an effective way to uncover usability problems – I would suggest we write comprehensive documentation for using Flight from Python as a way to refine the public Python API

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-17378 [C++][Docs] Create tutorial content for basic Flight usage
• is related to: ARROW-6391 [Python][Flight] Add built-in methods on FlightServerBase to start server and wait for it to be available