Hey! I've been playing with delta-rs and really enjoying it. I had a couple questions though: 1. In the deltalake.table.DeltaTable init method, what is the purpose of the

without_files

parameter? 2. What's the best way to get a reference to the filesystem object being used by a DeltaTable if I want to pass it to another method but with the same configuration / credentials?

without_files

skips resolving the list of current files. I don’t think

without_files

is useful yet in the Python bindings. It was implemented in Rust for append-only write use cases where they didn’t want to have to keep the list of files in memory.

yes, but you can

get_storage_uri

off the

DeltaTable

too

Thanks for all the info. My use case is writing helper libraries and making pull requests to ML libraries that support reading parquet but not delta. I can generate the list of parquet files with delta-rs for a given version of a table, but it'd be nice to pass the filesystem object to these library's parquet reader methods too. The use case would be for users who are bought in on delta already but also want to use one of these ML libraries without duplicating effort on configuring credentials, generating the parquet file lists, etc. and want to do it in a consistent way without thinking about it.

I assume you're working largely in Python then?

Yes, largely in Python