[ARROW-9030] [Python] Clean up some usages of pyarrow.compat, move some common functions/symbols to lib.pyx

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/17217
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 03/Jun/20 17:11
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:04
• Resolved: 13/Jun/20 02:36

Description

I started doing this while looking into ARROW-4633

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #7421