[ARROW-751] [Python] Rename all Cython extensions to "private" status with leading underscore

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16367
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 01/Apr/17 20:50
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 13/Apr/17 10:51

Description

We can do this after the dust settles with the in-flight patches, but it would be good to have pyarrow._array instead of pyarrow.array. If we need to expose a module "publicly" to the user, it would be better to do it in pure Python (as we've done already with pyarrow._parquet).

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-670 Arrow 0.3 release