Hey @Cory Grinstead, any thoughts if we expose a

from daft import functions as F

API similar to Spark? It would read more like this:

F.ends_with(col("x"), "foo")

I’m thinking it would be nice almost entirely because it’s a much more consistent API between SQL and Python: • Nice wins for auto-generating our SQL function documentation • We can standardize naming across the Py/SQL APIs I do worry about potentially confusing folks because there will be more than 1 way of calling many of these functions (

.str.endswith(…)

). Perhaps we could start with a private module that we can use exclusively for generating our SQL docs for now (since Sphinx relies on being able to read these Python classes/objects for generating docstrings) Curious to get your thoughts

hmm that's an interesting idea.

I do worry about potentially confusing folks because there will be more than 1 way of calling many of these function

Yeah I definitely worry about this too. We don't want to end up in a pandas scenario where there's 20+ ways of doing everything.

Yeah….