[ARROW-8416] [Python] Provide a "feather" alias in the dataset API

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.17.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24598
• Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
• Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
• Created: 13/Apr/20 07:38
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:00
• Resolved: 13/Apr/20 22:18

Description

I don't know what the plans are on the C++ side (ARROW-7586), but for 0.17, I think it would be nice if we can at least support ds.dataset(..., format="feather") (instead of needing to tell people to do ds.dataset(..., format="ipc") to read feather files).

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6919