use min version of pyarrow

Author: jreback

pandas/io/orc.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 """ orc compat """
 
+import distutils
+
 from pandas.compat._optional import import_optional_dependency
 from pandas.errors import AbstractMethodError
 
@@ -68,6 +70,13 @@ def __init__(self):
         pyarrow = import_optional_dependency(
             "pyarrow", extra="pyarrow is required for orc support."
         )
+
+        # we require a newer version of pyarrow that we support for parquet
+        import pyarrow
+
+        if distutils.version.LooseVersion(pyarrow.__version__) < "0.13.0":
+            raise ImportError("pyarrow must be >= 0.13.0 for read_orc")
+
         import pyarrow.orc
 
         self.api = pyarrow

pandas/tests/io/test_orc.py

@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 """ test orc compat """
 import datetime
+import distutils
 import os
 
 import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
 import pandas as pd
 import pandas.util.testing as tm
-import pytest
+
 from pandas.io.orc import PyArrowImpl, get_engine, read_orc
 
 try:
     import pyarrow  # noqa
 
+    if distutils.version.LooseVersion(pyarrow.__version__) < "0.13.0":
+        raise ImportError("pyarrow must be >= 0.13.0 for read_orc")
+
     _HAVE_PYARROW = True
 except ImportError:
     _HAVE_PYARROW = False