Fix Python unit test that needs to base64-decode now

wesm · wesm · commit 06f75cd5b448 · 2019-09-24T18:46:28.000-05:00
diff --git a/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py b/python/pyarrow/tests/test_extension_type.py
@@ -372,7 +372,10 @@ def test_parquet(tmpdir, registered_period_type):
     meta = pq.read_metadata(filename)
     assert meta.schema.column(0).physical_type == "INT64"
     assert b"ARROW:schema" in meta.metadata
-    schema = pa.read_schema(pa.BufferReader(meta.metadata[b"ARROW:schema"]))
+
+    import base64
+    decoded_schema = base64.b64decode(meta.metadata[b"ARROW:schema"])
+    schema = pa.read_schema(pa.BufferReader(decoded_schema))
     assert schema.field("ext").metadata == {
         b'ARROW:extension:metadata': b'freq=D',
         b'ARROW:extension:name': b'pandas.period'}
