Add `to_list` to return query results as list of python dict (so we're
not too pandas-centric). Closes#555
Add `to_pandas` API and add deprecation warning on `to_df`. Closes#545
Co-authored-by: Chang She <chang@lancedb.com>
I only modified those docs pages that are untouched in existing unmerged
PRs, so hopefully there are no merge conflicts!
1. The `tantivy-py` version specified in the docs doesn't work (pip
install fails), but with the latest version of pip and wheel installed
on my Mac, I was able to just `pip install tantivy` and FTS works great
for me. I updated the docs page to include this in
7ca4b757ce but can always modify to
another specific version in case this breaks any tests.
2. The `.add()` method for Python should take in a list of dicts as the
first option (to also align with the JS API), and additionally, users
can pass an existing pandas DataFrame to add to a table. Hope this makes
sense.
3. I've had multiple conversations with users who are unclear that the
terms "exhaustive", "flat" and "KNN" are all the same kind of search, so
I've updated the verbiage of this section to clarify this.
4. Fixed typos and improved clarity in the ANN indexes page.
Saves users from having to explicitly call
`LanceModel.to_arrow_schema()` when creating an empty table.
See new docs for full details.
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Co-authored-by: Chang She <chang@lancedb.com>
- Creates testing files `md_testing.py` and `md_testing.js` for testing
python and nodejs code in markdown files in the documentation
This listens for HTML tags as well: `<!--[language] code code
code...-->` will create a set-up file to create some mock tables or to
fulfill some assumptions in the documentation.
- Creates a github action workflow that triggers every push/pr to
`docs/**`
- Modifies documentation so tests run (mostly indentation, some small
syntax errors and some missing imports)
A list of excluded files that we need to take a closer look at later on:
```javascript
const excludedFiles = [
"../src/fts.md",
"../src/embedding.md",
"../src/examples/serverless_lancedb_with_s3_and_lambda.md",
"../src/examples/serverless_qa_bot_with_modal_and_langchain.md",
"../src/examples/youtube_transcript_bot_with_nodejs.md",
];
```
Many of them can't be done because we need the OpenAI API key :(.
`fts.md` has some issues with the library, I believe this is still
experimental?
Closes#170
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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
