Again! cannot import name 'convert_files_to_dicts' from 'haystack.utils' After the recent Update.

[AI-Ahmed]

[radhakrishr36]

I am also facing the same issue after the recent updates

ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
1 from haystack.preprocessor.cleaning import clean_wiki_text
----> 2 from haystack.preprocessor.utils import convert_files_to_dicts, fetch_archive_from_http
3 from haystack.reader.farm import FARMReader
4 from haystack.reader.transformers import TransformersReader
5 from haystack.utils import print_answers

ImportError: cannot import name 'convert_files_to_dicts' from 'haystack.utils.preprocessing' (unknown location)

help me to resolve this issue.

[bogdankostic]

Hi @AI-Ahmed and @radhakrishr36! In #2342, we included a few breaking changes. One of them is the renaming of convert_files_to_dicts to convert_files_to_docs. This method does not return a list of dictionaries anymore, but a list of Document objects. We changed the tutorials accordingly.

I hope this solves your problem.

[AI-Ahmed]

This is much better! Thanks @bogdankostic

[aicam]

Thanks @bogdankostic but now in version 2, it seems like it does not exist at all:
from haystack.utils import convert_files_to_docs
I tried to import it or alternatives but could not find neither in doc or code