This is an issue to collect feedback on the decision to make PyArrow a required dependency and to infer strings as PyArrow backed strings by default.QST:

[sonwaneajay228]

Research

• I have searched the [pandas] tag on StackOverflow for similar questions.

• I have asked my usage related question on StackOverflow.

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Question about pandas

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[sonwaneajay228]

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[mroeschke]

Closing in favor of #54466