ARROW-17449: [Python] Better repr for Buffer, MemoryPool, NativeFile and Codec

python/pyarrow/io.pxi

@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ cdef class NativeFile(_Weakrefable):
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, tb):
         self.close()
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        name = f"pyarrow.{self.__class__.__name__}"
+        return (f"<{name} "
+                f"closed={self.closed} "
+                f"own_file={self.own_file} "
+                f"is_seekable={self.is_seekable} "
+                f"is_writable={self.is_writable} "
+                f"is_readable={self.is_readable}>")
+
     @property
     def mode(self):
         """
@@ -766,6 +775,13 @@ cdef class PythonFile(NativeFile):
     As a downside, there is a non-zero redirection cost in translating
     Arrow stream calls to Python method calls.  Furthermore, Python's
     Global Interpreter Lock may limit parallelism in some situations.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> import io
+    >>> import pyarrow as pa
+    >>> pa.PythonFile(io.BytesIO())
+    <pyarrow.PythonFile closed=False own_file=False is_seekable=False is_writable=True is_readable=False>
     """
     cdef:
         object handle
@@ -1053,6 +1069,14 @@ cdef class Buffer(_Weakrefable):
     def __len__(self):
         return self.size
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        name = f"pyarrow.{self.__class__.__name__}"
+        return (f"<{name} "
+                f"address={hex(self.address)} "
+                f"size={self.size} "
+                f"is_cpu={self.is_cpu} "
+                f"is_mutable={self.is_mutable}>")
+
     @property
     def size(self):
         """
@@ -1843,6 +1867,17 @@ cdef class Codec(_Weakrefable):
     ------
     ValueError
         If invalid compression value is passed.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> import pyarrow as pa
+    >>> pa.Codec.is_available('gzip')
+    True
+    >>> codec = pa.Codec('gzip')
+    >>> codec.name
+    'gzip'
+    >>> codec.compression_level
+    9
     """
 
     def __init__(self, str compression not None, compression_level=None):
@@ -1964,7 +1999,9 @@ cdef class Codec(_Weakrefable):
     @property
     def compression_level(self):
         """Returns the compression level parameter of the codec"""
-        return frombytes(self.unwrap().compression_level())
+        if self.name == 'snappy':
+            return None
+        return self.unwrap().compression_level()
 
     def compress(self, object buf, asbytes=False, memory_pool=None):
         """
@@ -2080,6 +2117,12 @@ cdef class Codec(_Weakrefable):
 
         return pybuf if asbytes else out_buf
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        name = f"pyarrow.{self.__class__.__name__}"
+        return (f"<{name} "
+                f"name={self.name} "
+                f"compression_level={self.compression_level}>")
+
 
 def compress(object buf, codec='lz4', asbytes=False, memory_pool=None):
     """

python/pyarrow/memory.pxi

@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ cdef class MemoryPool(_Weakrefable):
         """
         return frombytes(self.pool.backend_name())
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        name = f"pyarrow.{self.__class__.__name__}"
+        return (f"<{name} "
+                f"backend_name={self.backend_name} "
+                f"bytes_allocated={self.bytes_allocated()} "
+                f"max_memory={self.max_memory()}>")
 
 cdef CMemoryPool* maybe_unbox_memory_pool(MemoryPool memory_pool):
     if memory_pool is None:
@@ -118,6 +124,11 @@ cdef class ProxyMemoryPool(MemoryPool):
 def default_memory_pool():
     """
     Return the process-global memory pool.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> default_memory_pool()
+    <pyarrow.MemoryPool backend_name=... bytes_allocated=0 max_memory=...>
     """
     cdef:
         MemoryPool pool = MemoryPool.__new__(MemoryPool)

python/pyarrow/table.pxi

@@ -2013,7 +2013,7 @@ cdef class RecordBatch(_PandasConvertible):
         >>> batch = pa.RecordBatch.from_arrays([n_legs, animals],
         ...                                     names=["n_legs", "animals"])
         >>> batch.serialize()
-        <pyarrow.lib.Buffer object at ...>
+        <pyarrow.Buffer address=0x... size=... is_cpu=True is_mutable=True>
         """
         cdef shared_ptr[CBuffer] buffer
         cdef CIpcWriteOptions options = CIpcWriteOptions.Defaults()

python/pyarrow/tests/test_io.py

@@ -719,6 +719,12 @@ def test_compression_level(compression):
     if not Codec.is_available(compression):
         pytest.skip("{} support is not built".format(compression))
 
+    codec = Codec(compression)
+    if codec.name == "snappy":
+        assert codec.compression_level is None
+    else:
+        assert isinstance(codec.compression_level, int)
+
     # These codecs do not support a compression level
     no_level = ['snappy']
     if compression in no_level:

python/pyarrow/types.pxi

@@ -2065,7 +2065,7 @@ cdef class Schema(_Weakrefable):
         Write schema to Buffer:
 
         >>> schema.serialize()
-        <pyarrow.lib.Buffer object at ...>
+        <pyarrow.Buffer address=0x... size=... is_cpu=True is_mutable=True>
         """
         cdef:
             shared_ptr[CBuffer] buffer