If my assumption is incorrect

Just as a sanity check I checked and pandas/vaex/cuDF/modin all return the type described in Column.dtype for the get_buffers() values. A. TODO I realize for dataframe-interchange-tests is generalise test_dtype and use it in test_get_buffers.

Note that this is actually not correct, depending on how you interpret it. Yes, the buffers' dtype returns a similar type of DType tuple, but it should not necessarily return the same dtype tuple as its Column.dtype does, as the buffer can have a different dtype than the column.

It seems that we all interpreted this wrongly and all implementations got this wrong (or the text about "the data buffer's associated dtype" is wrong), see apache/arrow#37598, pandas-dev/pandas#54781, pola-rs/polars#10787 (and the same for StaticFrame mentioned above, from a quick look).

Originally posted by @jorisvandenbossche in #87 (comment)