[SPARK-22874] Modify checking pandas version to use LooseVersion.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: PySpark, SQL
• Assignee: Takuya Ueshin
• Reporter: Takuya Ueshin
• Created: 22/Dec/17 08:24
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:11
• Resolved: 22/Dec/17 11:12

Description

Currently we check pandas version by capturing if ImportError for the specific imports is raised or not but we can compare LooseVersion of the version string as the same as we're checking pyarrow version.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #20054 (ueshin)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #20074 (ueshin)