pola-rs/polars: Python Polars 0.19.8

🏆 Highlights Enable additional flags for x86-64 wheels (#11487) ⚠️ Deprecations Rename .list.lengths and .str.lengths (#11613) Deprecate default value for radix in parse_int (#11615) Rename write_csv parameter quote to quote_char (#11583) 🚀 Performance improvements actually use projection information in async parquet reader (#11637) improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607) use try_binary_elementwise over try_binary_elementwise_values (#11596) skip empty chunks in concat (#11565) improve sparse sample performance (#11544) ✨ Enhancements Standardize error message format (#11598) allow coalesce in streaming (#11633) Implement schema, schema_override for pl.read_json with array-like input (#11492) add SQL support for UNION [ALL] BY NAME, add "diagonal_relaxed" strategy for pl.concat (#11597) improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607) add time_unit argument to duration, default to "us" (#11586) support read_database options passthrough to the underlying connection s execute method (enables parameterised SQL queries, etc) (#11562) elide overflow checks on i64 (#11563) add INITCAP string function for SQL (#9884) 🐞 Bug fixes Fix input replacement logic for slice (#11631) slice expr can be taken in cse (#11628) ensure nested logical types are converted to physical (#11621) correctly convert nullability of nested parquet fields to arrow (#11619) improve performance and fix panic in async parquet reader (#11607) normalize filepath in sink_parquet (#11605) parse time unit properly in pl.lit (#11573) expand all literals before group_by (#11590) fix as_dict with include_key=False for partition_by (#9865) mark take_group_last function as unsafe (#11587) handle unary operators applied to numbers used in SQL IN clauses (#11574) Align new_columns argument for scan_csv and read_csv (#11575) don t conflate supported UNION ops in the SQL parser with (currently) unsupported UNION "BY NAME" variations (#11576) Add initialization support for python Timedeltas (#11566) incomplete reading of list types from parquet (#11578) respect identity in horizontal sum (#11559) bug in BitMask::get_u32 (#11560) take slice into account in parallel unions (#11558) correct schema empty df in hive partitioning read (#11557) ensure ListChunked::full_null uses physical types (#11554) respect hive_partitioning argument in parquet (#11551) fix parquet deserialization Overflow error by using i64 offset types when promoting Arrow Lists to LargeLists (#11549) streamline is_in handling of mismatched dtypes and fix a minor regression (#11533) fix comparing tz-aware series with stdlib datetime (#11480) catch use of non equi-joins in SQL interface and raise appropriate error (#11526) rework SQL join constraint processing to properly account for all USING columns (#11518) 🛠️ Other improvements Improved user guide for cloud functionality (#11646) Improve some docstrings (#11644) Disable clippy lint "too many arguments" for py-polars (#11616) Make backwardfill and forwardfill function expr non-anonymous (#11630) Make all expr in dt namespace non-anonymous (#11627) Fix changelog for language-specific breaking changes (#11617) Make value_counts and unique_counts function expr non-anonymous (#11601) Make arg_min(max), diff in list namespace non-anonymous (#11602) Rename write_csv parameter quote to quote_char (#11583) improve struct documentation (#11585) Remove **kwargs from LazyFrame.collect() (#11567) use a generic consistent total ordering, also for floats (#11468) fix lints (#11555) Remove toolchain specification workaround (#11552) Trigger Python release from Actions workflow dispatch (#11538) Enable additional flags for x86-64 wheels (#11487) Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @ByteNybbler, @MarcoGorelli, @TheDataScientistNL, @alexander-beedie, @andysham, @c-peters, @jhorstmann, @mcrumiller, @nameexhaustion, @orlp, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @romanovacca, @stinodego and @svaningelgem