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* Make dummy classes constructible with any arguments

* Update compat.py

* Improve error message for plot_metric with Booster

* Update error message

* update Guolin's e-mail in `setup.py`

* change maintainer's info

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[python][sklearn] add `__sklearn_is_fitted__()` method to be better compatible with scikit-learn API (#4636)

* Update README.rst

* Update README.md

* Update Installation-Guide.rst

[python-package] Support 2d collections as input for `init_score` in multiclass classification task (#4150)

* initial implementation of init_score for multiclass classification

* check for 1d or 2d collection in init_score

* remove dataset import

* initial comments

* update dask test and docstrings

* update docstrings

* move logic to set_field. reshape back on get_field

* add type hints and update docstrings for dask. fix Dataset.set_field

* revert wrong docstrings and type hints

* add extra comma for consistency

* prefix private functions with underscore

add type hints to new functions

make commas consistent in dask and basic

* add missing spaces after type hint

* remove shape condition for dataframe in is_2d_collection
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* Update __init__.py

* Update Python-API.rst

* Update engine.py

* Update test_utilities.py

* Update sklearn.py

* Update callback.py

* Update callback.py

* Update callback.py

* deprecate advanced args of `train()` and `cv()`

* update Dask test

* improve deducing

* address review comments

* deprecate `silent` and standalone `verbose` args. Prefer global `verbose` param

* simplify code

* Rephrase warning messages

* Reffer to string type as `str` and and commas in `list of ...` types

* update `libpath.py` too

* Update callback.py

* Update engine.py

* [python] add type hints on train() in engine.py

* revert dask.py and sklearn.py changes

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* update docs on evals_result contents

* Update python-package/lightgbm/engine.py
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[docs] Clarify the fact that predict() on a file does not support saved Datasets (fixes #4034) (#4545)

* documentation changes

* add list of supported formats to error message

* add unit tests

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* update per review comments

* make references consistent
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* add parameter object_hook to function dump_model (python API)

* eol

* fix syntax

* lint

* better documentation

* Update python-package/lightgbm/basic.py
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* [python] add type hints to logging functions in basic.py

* add hints on wrapper

* find all needed ports in each worker at once

* lint

* better naming

* use _HostWorkers in test

* Update c_api LGBM_SampleIndices() comment.

rand.Sample() now returns exactly given number of samples, thus the
comment should be fixed.

* Update include/LightGBM/c_api.h
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* [python] support Dataset.get_data for Sequence input.

* Tweaks according to review comments.

* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Add test cases.

* fix import order in test_basic.py
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* use absolute() on paths first

* migrate to pathlib in setup.py

* call predict on one row of data to determine output shape

* make DaskLGBMRanker predict method equal to the others

* remove extra drop_axis

* allow to pass some params as pathlib.Path objects

* fix lint

* improve indentation