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lancedb/python
Wyatt Alt 3a4cdb7aff fix(udf): JobHandle.wait() terminates on failed jobs
wait() (sync + async) only stopped on finished/stale/committed, so a job the
server already reported as state=failed was polled until the (default 3600s)
timeout, then raised a misleading TimeoutError instead of the real cause. A
doomed backfill -- e.g. a multi-column REFRESH COLUMN of a scalar UDF -- hung
the client even though get_job surfaced the failure within ~3s.

Add a terminal failed branch that raises JobFailedError carrying the server
error, exported from the package. Verified end-to-end against the cluster:
raises in 3.6s instead of hanging. Unit-tested with a mock conn (sync+async,
failure + success + committed paths).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-29 22:35:35 -07:00
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2025-01-29 08:27:07 -08:00
2024-04-05 16:22:59 -07:00

LanceDB Python SDK

A Python library for LanceDB.

Installation

pip install lancedb

Preview Releases

Stable releases are created about every 2 weeks. For the latest features and bug fixes, you can install the preview release. These releases receive the same level of testing as stable releases, but are not guaranteed to be available for more than 6 months after they are released. Once your application is stable, we recommend switching to stable releases.

pip install --pre --extra-index-url https://pypi.fury.io/lancedb/ lancedb

Usage

Basic Example

import lancedb
db = lancedb.connect('<PATH_TO_LANCEDB_DATASET>')
table = db.open_table('my_table')
results = table.search([0.1, 0.3]).limit(20).to_list()
print(results)

Development

See CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute to LanceDB.