[ARROW-6556] [Python] Prepare for pandas release without SparseDataFrame

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/22916
• Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
• Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
• Created: 13/Sep/19 11:27
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 10:47
• Resolved: 14/Sep/19 04:37

Description

We still have a few places where we use SparseDataFrame. An upcoming release of pandas will remove this class, so we should already make sure it works for that.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5377
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5438