[Python] How do I read a `.arrow` (Apache Arrow aka Feather V2 format) file with Python Pandas?

I'm trying to read an .arrow format file with Python pandas.

pandas does not have a read_arrow function. However, it does have read_csv, read_parquet, and other similarly named functions.

How can I read an Apache Arrow format file?

I have read the documentation and know how to convert between the pandas.DataFrame type and the pyarrow Table type, which appears to be some kind of pyarrow equivalent of a pandas DataFrame. However, this may or may not be relevant information.

What I cannot find is a way to either

• read a pyarrow.Table from an Arrow file
• read a pandas.DataFrame from an Arrow file

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