PyArrow DLL Issue

[jjAtNxtPt]

At my company I was asked to migrate from the VDI I was using to a new Cloud PC. As part of this migration I decided to update to Python 3.13. I've got a script that reads a duckdb file and loads a table from it. However, that script if failing due to a DLL failed while importing lib: The specified module could not be found. and the module named is import pyarrow.lib as _lib. I've looked this up online and it says to uninstall/re-install pyarrow and ibis-framework[duckdb], done, and to use the most up to date Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio, which I have. However, none of that fixed the issue. I don't know if it can be reproduced or not on another system.
I'm working with:

• Windows 11
• Python 3.13
• relevant libraries in project.toml:
  • duckdb>=1.3.2
  • ibis-framework[duckdb]>=10.8.0
  • pyarrow>=21.0.0

Example code:

import ibis

sess_env = "dev"
db_name= "test_duckdb"
table_name= "some_table"
duckdb_file = f"C:/data/extracts/{db_name}.duckdb"
print(f"Querying {db_name}.{table_name} from {sess_env} environment")
df = ibis.duckdb.connect(
    duckdb_file,
    read_only=True,
).table(query_base_name)

print(df.limit(10).execute())

Here's the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\..\test.py", line 13, in <module>
    ).table(table_name)
      ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\...\.venv\Lib\site-packages\ibis\backends\duckdb\__init__.py", line 264, in table
    table_schema = self.get_schema(name, catalog=catalog, database=database)
  File "C:\...\.venv\Lib\site-packages\ibis\backends\duckdb\__init__.py", line 310, in get_schema
    meta = result.fetch_arrow_table()
  File "C:\...\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pyarrow\__init__.py", line 73, in <module>
    import pyarrow.lib as _lib
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing lib: The specified module could not be found.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[jjAtNxtPt]

FYI: I had to downgrade pyarrow from 21 to 20 to get this to work.