Polars: py-0.18.14 Release

🏆 Highlights

• Native implementation of dataframe interchange protocol (#10267)

⚠️ Deprecations

• Deprecate behavior of list/tuple inputs for lit (#10461)

🚀 Performance improvements

• optimise retrieval of values from df.item (~4-5x speedup) (#10411)
• pre-alloc int_ranges (#10399)
• use hash as CSE Identifier (#10385)

✨ Enhancements

• quote style option for csv writer (#10422)
• add "raise_if_empty" flag to read_excel, read_csv, scan_csv, and read_csv_batched (#10409)
• add use_earliest to to_datetime / strptime (#10426)
• add new "header_format" option for write_excel (#10392)
• {any/all}_horizontal to expression architecture (#10412)
• Native implementation of dataframe interchange protocol (#10267)
• allow unaligned pointers in arrow FFI (#10403)
• add line_terminator option to write_csv (#10373)
• add explicit selector variants for signed/unsigned integers (#10384)
• Add is_local and to_local to categorical namespace (#10372)
• enhance selectors expansion function, so it can operate on a schema as well as a frame (#10341)
• Order percentiles in describe (#10378)
• cse for groupby.agg and reduced cse collisions (#10381)
• improve take_every(0) exception (#10352)
• add offset and length to get_ptr (#10361)

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix pyarrow write_to_dataset wrt check_not_directory parameter (#10471)
• fix negative decimal parsing (#10444)
• ensure sorted_sink hash equals the default path (#10464)
• address inconsistency in init from square numpy arrays with/without an explicit schema (#10445)
• ensure last aggregation deals with default chunk (#10453)
• fix cse input schema (#10450)
• Fix by argument handling in join_asof (#10447)
• fix potential OverflowError in testing asserts with huge UInt64 diffs (#10437)
• Create delta compatible schema during writing (#10165)
• fix list groupby of array dtype (#10408)
• correct AnyValue::hash (#10391)
• finalize cast in partitioned groupby (#10359)

🛠️ Other improvements

• add vertical_relaxed example for pl.concat (#10472)
• Run all streaming tests on the same test runner (#10469)
• Organize OOC tests (#10463)
• add test for 10417 (#10420)
• Clean up some Sphinx settings (#10400)
• add test for 10401 (#10405)
• Address Ruff per file ignores (#10258)
• Small improvement for PySeries.get_buffer (#10363)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible! @MarcoGorelli, @OndrejSlamecka, @alexander-beedie, @c-peters, @cmdlineluser, @drgif, @ion-elgreco, @lfn3, @orlp, @potzenhotz, @rea1bacon, @reswqa, @ritchie46, @stinodego and @zundertj