Code review comments, bump some jobs to Python 3.13, update version for some jobs to Python 3.12 and update docs

Author: raulcd

.github/workflows/archery.yml

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/[email protected]
         with:
-          python-version: '3.10'
+          python-version: '3.12'
       - name: Install pygit2 binary wheel
         run: pip install pygit2 --only-binary pygit2
       - name: Install Archery, Crossbow- and Test Dependencies

.github/workflows/cpp.yml

@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/[email protected]
         id: python-install
         with:
-          python-version: '3.10'
+          python-version: '3.12'
       - name: Install Google Cloud Storage Testbench
         shell: msys2 {0}
         env:

.github/workflows/docs_light.yml

@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@ env:
 jobs:
 
   light:
-    name: AMD64 Conda Python 3.10 Sphinx Documentation
+    name: AMD64 Conda Python 3.12 Sphinx Documentation
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     if: ${{ !contains(github.event.pull_request.title, 'WIP') }}
     timeout-minutes: 60
     env:
-      PYTHON: "3.10"
+      PYTHON: "3.12"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Arrow
         uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5.0.0

.github/workflows/python.yml

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ jobs:
           - conda-python-docs
           - conda-python-3.11-nopandas
           - conda-python-3.10-pandas-1.3.4
-          - conda-python-3.12-pandas-latest
+          - conda-python-3.13-pandas-latest
           - conda-python-3.12-no-numpy
         include:
           - name: conda-python-docs
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ jobs:
             python: "3.10"
             pandas: "1.3.4"
             numpy: "1.21.2"
-          - name: conda-python-3.12-pandas-latest
-            cache: conda-python-3.12
+          - name: conda-python-3.13-pandas-latest
+            cache: conda-python-3.13
             image: conda-python-pandas
-            title: AMD64 Conda Python 3.12 Pandas latest
-            python: "3.12"
+            title: AMD64 Conda Python 3.13 Pandas latest
+            python: "3.13"
             pandas: latest
           - name: conda-python-3.12-no-numpy
             cache: conda-python-3.12

dev/tasks/tasks.yml

@@ -1122,8 +1122,8 @@ tasks:
                                                                      ("3.11", "latest", "latest", False),
                                                                      ("3.12", "latest", "1.26", False),
                                                                      ("3.12", "latest", "latest", False),
-                                                                     ("3.12", "nightly", "nightly", False),
-                                                                     ("3.12", "upstream_devel", "nightly", False)] %}
+                                                                     ("3.13", "nightly", "nightly", False),
+                                                                     ("3.13", "upstream_devel", "nightly", False)] %}
   test-conda-python-{{ python_version }}-pandas-{{ pandas_version }}-numpy-{{ numpy_version }}:
     ci: github
     template: docker-tests/github.linux.yml

docs/source/python/install.rst

@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ Dependencies
 
 Optional dependencies
 
-* **NumPy 1.16.6** or higher.
-* **pandas 1.0** or higher,
+* **NumPy 1.21.2** or higher.
+* **pandas 1.3.4** or higher,
 * **cffi**.
 
 Additional packages PyArrow is compatible with are :ref:`fsspec <filesystem-fsspec>`