refactor(api): rename to_* methods for type coercion to something else
#9788
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to_* methods for type coercion to something else
#9788
Currently ibis has several
to_*methods - some compute and return a result (to_pandas,to_polars,to_parquet, ...), while others are for type coercion and continue to build up an expression (to_timestamp,to_interval, ...).I think we should rename the latter methods (with a deprecation period), keeping the
to_*prefix for things that compute and return a result.The current list is:
A few options:
as_*prefixes instead. This is what we did for the geospatial API (e.g.as_ewkb,as_binary, ...)parse_*for the string ones?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: