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- Version
- 17.0.0
- Maintainers
- 9
Python library for Apache Arrow
This library provides a Python API for functionality provided by the Arrow C++ libraries, along with tools for Arrow integration and interoperability with pandas, NumPy, and other software in the Python ecosystem.
Installing
Across platforms, you can install a recent version of pyarrow with the conda package manager:
conda install pyarrow -c conda-forge
On Linux, macOS, and Windows, you can also install binary wheels from PyPI with pip:
pip install pyarrow
If you encounter any issues importing the pip wheels on Windows, you may need to install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.
Development
See Python Development in the documentation subproject.
Building the documentation
See documentation build instructions in the documentation subproject.
FAQs
Python library for Apache Arrow
We found that pyarrow demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 9 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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