ENH: pandas.api.interchange.from_dataframe now uses the Arrow PyCapsule Interface if available, only falling back to the Dataframe Interchange Protocol if that fails by MarcoGorelli · Pull Request #60739 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

There's some related discussion to the interchange protocol in #56732

Regardless of whether it gets deprecated, what we can already do is prefer the PyCapsule Interface if it's available. I'd discussed this informally with @WillAyd

pandas.api.interchange.from_dataframe is still used in some places (Seaborn, Plotly<6.0, Altair<5.4) where people may want to upgrade pandas whilst keeping some other deps pinned, so this should make the transition to the PyCapsule Interface seamless for them