From 4cdcc84f25178bf13e85559826bce00b43cd701e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Roeschke <10647082+mroeschke@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 18:43:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Address review

---
 python/cudf/cudf/_lib/parquet.pyx                  | 2 +-
 python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet_metadata.pyx | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/parquet.pyx b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/parquet.pyx
index 1d959ddce40..d4bd0cd306c 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/parquet.pyx
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/_lib/parquet.pyx
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ cpdef read_parquet_metadata(list filepaths_or_buffers):
     col_names = [info.name() for info in parquet_metadata.schema().root().children()]
 
     index_col_names = set()
-    json_str = parquet_metadata.metadata()[b'pandas'].decode('utf-8')
+    json_str = parquet_metadata.metadata()['pandas']
     if json_str != "":
         meta = json.loads(json_str)
         file_is_range_index, index_col, _ = _parse_metadata(meta)
diff --git a/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet_metadata.pyx b/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet_metadata.pyx
index 6c66303b5b3..352905ff0f8 100644
--- a/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet_metadata.pyx
+++ b/python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet_metadata.pyx
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ cdef class ParquetColumnSchema:
         Returns
         -------
         list[ParquetColumnSchema]
-            Children schemas.
+            Child schemas.
         """
         cdef cpp_parquet_metadata.parquet_column_schema child
         return [
@@ -160,14 +160,14 @@ cdef class ParquetMetadata:
 
     cpdef dict metadata(self):
         """
-        Returns the Key value metadata in the file footer.
+        Returns the key-value metadata in the file footer.
 
         Returns
         -------
         dict[bytes, bytes]
             Key value metadata as a map.
         """
-        return self.meta.metadata()
+        return {key.decode(): val.decode() for key, val in self.meta.metadata()}
 
     cpdef list rowgroup_metadata(self):
         """