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* remove protobuf

* add version number

* remove pmml script

* use float for split gain

* fix warnings

* refine the read model logic of gbdt

* fix compile error

* improve decode speed

* fix some bugs

* fix double accuracy problem

* fix bug

* multi-thread save model

* speed up save model to string

* parallel save/load model

* fix some warnings.

* fix warnings.

* fix a bug

* remove debug output

* fix doc

* fix max_bin warning in tests.

* fix max_bin warning

* fix pylint

* clean code for stringToArray

* clean code for TToString

* remove max_bin

* replace "class" with typename

* fix multi-threading.

* fix name style.

* support in CLI version.

* remove warnings.

* Not default parameters.

* fix if...else... .

* fix bug.

* fix warning.

* refine c_api.

* fix R-package.

* fix R's warning.

* fix tests.

* fix pep8 .

* Add early stopping for prediction

* Fix GBDT if-else prediction with early stopping

* Small C++ embelishments to early stopping API and functions

* Fix early stopping efficiency issue by creating a singleton for no early stopping

* Python improvements to early stopping API

* Add assertion check for binary and multiclass prediction score length

* Update vcxproj and vcxproj.filters with new early stopping files

* Remove inline from PredictRaw(), the linker was not able to find it otherwise

https://docs.pytest.org/

* add pmml to test

* refine pmml.py

* use ~n instead of -n-1

* change map to list comprehension

* fix check

* fix 'use ~n instead of -n-1'

* fix exception

* format python code with pep8

* **DO NOT MERGE** deliberately break rules to see what will happen during check

* Revert "**DO NOT MERGE** deliberately break rules to see what will happen during check"

This reverts commit 0db93cd7a43c7efa43a2112ada43d46c6f9115d9.

* fix format in test.py

* add docs for pep-8

* support pickle

* add pickle/joblib test; change test_basic to unittest

* remove file for deepcopy

* fix tests

* test basic predict from file

* Revert "test basic predict from file"

This reverts commit 60d2c3158537fd56081f60f1d6d120cedd782887.

* test predict from file

* use tempfile for copy & pickle

* use tempfile w/o binary mode

* clean test

Provide a high level Dataset class for easy use.

Categorical feature support (#108)

1. merge python-package
2. add dump model to json
3. fix bugs
4. clean code with pylint
5. update python examples