[ARROW-970] [Python] Accidentally calling pyarrow.Table() should not segfault process

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: Python
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16569
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 08/May/17 00:28
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:11
• Resolved: 17/May/17 19:37

Description

While we need not go crazy with null-pointer checks, the code that gets executed by repr(pyarrow.Table()) should result in a more helpful error message