[ARROW-7039] [Python] Typecheck expects pandas to be installed

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23349
• Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 31/Oct/19 12:14
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:51
• Resolved: 01/Nov/19 12:02

Description

See nightly build failure: https://circleci.com/gh/ursa-labs/crossbow/4285?utm_campaign=vcs-integration-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github-build-link

The following patch fixes it:

diff --git a/python/pyarrow/table.pxi b/python/pyarrow/table.pxi
index b65dac4cb..e0a82fd76 100644
--- a/python/pyarrow/table.pxi
+++ b/python/pyarrow/table.pxi
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@

 import warnings

+
 cdef class ChunkedArray(_PandasConvertible):
     """
     Array backed via one or more memory chunks.
@@ -1579,7 +1580,7 @@ def record_batch(data, names=None, schema=None, metadata=None):
     if isinstance(data, (list, tuple)):
         return RecordBatch.from_arrays(data, names=names, schema=schema,
                                        metadata=metadata)
-    elif isinstance(data, _pandas_api.pd.DataFrame):
+    elif _pandas_api.is_data_frame(data):
         return RecordBatch.from_pandas(data, schema=schema)
     else:
         return TypeError("Expected pandas DataFrame or python dictionary")

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5764