py-iceberg is a python library for programmatic access to iceberg table metadata as well as to table data in iceberg format. It is an implementation of iceberg table spec in Python.
py-iceberg is currently in development, for development and testing purposes the best way to install the library is to perform the following steps:
git clone https://github.com/apache/iceberg.git cd iceberg/python pip install -e .
Development is made easy using Poetry.
Poetry provides virtual environments for development:
poetry shell poetry install -E pyarrow pytest
For more information, please refer to the Manage environments section of Poetry.
Testing is done using Poetry:
poetry install -E pyarrow poetry run pytest