## user story
fixes https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1480https://github.com/invl/retry has not had an update in 8 years, one if
its sub-dependencies via requirements.txt
(https://github.com/pytest-dev/py) is no longer maintained and has a
high severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-42969).
retry is only used for a single function in the python codebase for a
deprecated helper function `with_embeddings`, which was created for an
older tutorial (https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/pull/12) [but is now
deprecated](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/embeddings/legacy/).
## changes
i backported a limited range of functionality of the `@retry()`
decorator directly into lancedb so that we no longer have a dependency
to the `retry` package.
## tests
```
/Users/james/src/lancedb/python $ ruff check .
All checks passed!
/Users/james/src/lancedb/python $ pytest python/tests/test_embeddings.py
python/tests/test_embeddings.py .......s.... [100%]
================================================================ 11 passed, 1 skipped, 2 warnings in 7.08s ================================================================
```
first off, apologies for any folly since i'm new to contributing to
lancedb. this PR is the continuation of [a discord
thread](https://discord.com/channels/1030247538198061086/1030247538667827251/1278844345713299599):
## user story
here's the lance db search query i'd like to run:
```
def search(phrase):
logger.info(f'Searching for phrase: {phrase}')
phrase_embedding = get_embedding(phrase)
df = (table.search((phrase_embedding, phrase), query_type='hybrid')
.limit(10).to_list())
logger.info(f'Success search with row count: {len(df)}')
search('howdy (howdy)')
search('howdy(howdy)')
```
the second search fails due to `ValueError: Syntax Error: howdy(howdy)`
i saw on the
[docs](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/fts/#phrase-queries-vs-terms-queries)
that i can use `phrase_query()` to [enable a
flag](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/blob/main/python/python/lancedb/query.py#L790-L792)
to wrap the query in double quotes (as well as sanitize single quotes)
prior to sending the query to search. this works for [normal
FTS](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/fts/), but the command is
unavailable on [hybrid
search](https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/hybrid_search/hybrid_search/).
## changes
i added `phrase_query()` function to `LanceHybridQueryBuilder` by
propagating the call down to its `self. _fts_query` object. i'm not too
familiar with the codebase and am not sure if this is the best way to
implement the functionality. feel free to riff on this PR or discard
## tests
```
(lancedb) JamesMPB:python james$ pwd
/Users/james/src/lancedb/python
(lancedb) JamesMPB:python james$ pytest python/tests/test_table.py
python/tests/test_table.py ....................................... [100%]
====================================================== 39 passed, 1 warning in 2.23s =======================================================
```
James Wu