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    Pythonlangchain-coredocumentscompressorBaseDocumentCompressorcompress_documents
    Method●Since v0.1

    compress_documents

    Compress retrieved documents given the query context.

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    compress_documents(
      self,
      documents: Sequence[Document],
      query: str,
      callbacks: Callbacks | None = None
    ) -> Sequence[Document]

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    documents*Sequence[Document]

    The retrieved Document objects.

    query*str

    The query context.

    callbacksCallbacks | None
    Default:None

    Optional Callbacks to run during compression.

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