Get_items vs get_x

[vishak (Vishak Bharadwaj S)]

Hello people. I’m having some trouble thinking about get_item and get_x.
Both are used to get the input as far as I can tell. can you use both to get images for example? When is one used more appropriately?

Thanks!

[muellerzr (Zachary Mueller)]

See Sylvains answer to the question here:

Fastai v2 chat

get_items is completely decoupled from get_x and get_y: it is there to return all your items from the source. You can pass get_x and get_y (or a list of getters) to explain how to get your x and y from the result of get_items and they both default to noop (which is why when get_items return filenames, we don’t pass a get_x).