[BEAM-14199] Expose dataframes/pandas top-level functions.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: dsl-dataframe
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Bradshaw
• Created: 29/Mar/22 18:14
• Updated: 05/Jun/22 00:19

Description

Right now a user needs to do something like

from apache_beam.dataframe.pandas_top_level_functions import pd_wrapper as beam_pd

to use top-level functions like merge, which is undocumented and unintuitive.