[Python][Packaging] 3.11 wheels

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Hi.

Could you please provide wheels with Python 3.11 support?
Python 3.11.0-rc1 was released: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110rc1/., and from this release onward, there won't be any ABI changes.

There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.11 series and the goal is that there will be as few code changes as possible.

So, I think it should be safe to release wheel.

Thank you.

Reporter: Saugat Pachhai
Assignee: Raúl Cumplido / @raulcd

Related issues:

• Python 3.11 wheels (duplicates)
• [Python] Python 3.11 no wheels for pyarrow 9.0.0 (is duplicated by)
• wheels for PyArrow + Python 3.11 (is duplicated by)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #14499

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-17487. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou:
At the minimum this will need compatible Numpy and Cython versions. Do these exist already?

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Saugat Pachhai:
@pitrou, yes, Numpy v1.23.2 provides wheels for 3.11. Cython should be compatible with 3.11 AFAIK, there are wheels for 3.11 for Cython.

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/releases/tag/v1.23.2
https://github.com/cython/cython/releases/tag/0.29.32

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Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou:
cc @raulcd

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Raúl Cumplido / @raulcd:
The official release of 3.11 is planned for the 3rd of October . I took a quick a look but it seems that for some of our CI jobs we require the official release to be available, I'll investigate a little further to see if we can start adding CI jobs to test pyarrow for 3.11.

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Raúl Cumplido / @raulcd:
This is the upstream python feedstock PR to add the Python 3.11 rc1 to conda-forge: conda-forge/python-feedstock#577 once this is merged we can start creating jobs to prepare wheels for 3.11

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Raúl Cumplido / @raulcd:
The Python feedstocks have been updated with Python 3.11 now. cffi hasn't published wheels for 3.11 yet.

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Kostya Leschenko:
@raulcd latest cffi version already has the 3.11 wheels available https://pypi.org/project/cffi/1.15.1/#files

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Raúl Cumplido / @raulcd:
Thanks [~kleschenko] , it seems so, I got confused by this issue: https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/cffi/-/issues/548 and the conda feedstocks not being available yet either: https://github.com/conda-forge/cffi-feedstock

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Antoine Pitrou / @pitrou:
cffi is just an optional runtime dependency.

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Kouhei Sutou / @kou:
Issue resolved by pull request 14499
#14499