snowflakedb / snowflakedb/snowpark-python

SNOW-3031353: Documentation: describe extras

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Since Jan 29, 2026.

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Description

What is the current behavior?

Documentation of the Python package (especially README.md) does not list or describe the extras available for installation, except pandas and modin. E.g. secure-local-storage needs to be dug from setup.py or from very deep in the Snowflake product documentation.

No open issues were found in the tracker using query is:issue state:open extras.

What is the desired behavior?

README.md lists available extras and the behavior their installation enables, at least with references to other Snowflake documentation.

How would this improve snowflake-snowpark-python?

This would make information faster to find, hence make the package easier to use. Some behavior, e.g. credential caching enabled by secure-local-storage, is not easy to discover from product documentation, so making it visible here would make the behavior easier to discover.

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