Announcement – Page 2 – Tableau Sci-Fi: Advance Your Tableau With Data Science

It took some time, but TabPy v1 finally happened. Comparing to the previous v0.9.0 there are not so many changes:

TabPy is now Tableau Supported product! Used to be Community Supported.
External Services now branded as Analytics Extensions. Tableau Analytics Extensions API documentation is at https://tableau.github.io/analytics-extensions-api/.
The API itself was announced with Tableau blog post at https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2020/1/new-year-new-updates-analytics-extensions-api-hyper-api-javascript-api-and-rest.

To install TabPy or update your TabPy instance to the latest release run the following command:

pip install --upgrade tabpy

Additional reading:

As we getting closer to TabPy v1 being released (read here for more details – https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2020/1/python-tableau-now-10) some bug fixes, documentation updates and code improvements are made. In the v0.9.0 release those are:

TabPy now works with Python 3.8.
Client.remove() method was added and now models (deployed functions) can be deleted with tabpy_tools.
Index page for running TabPy instance now shows the instance settings, deployed models and some useful links.
Bug fixes for Ctrl+C, query timeout, returning None or not returning value from a script, returning NaN in result.
Internals improvements for code quality, package size, test coverage.

To install this specific version run pip install tabpy==0.9.0 command.

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