Python Polars 0.16.9

🚀 Performance improvements

• improve perf of multi-args exprs in groupby context (#7186)
• optimize sequence_to_pydf (#7044)
• improve single argument elementwise expression pe… (#7180)

✨ Enhancements

• show column name if read_csv errors (#7177)
• support direct LazyFrame init (same params as DataFrame) (#7122)
• add a base_type method to DataType (#7166)
• add explode for binary (#7159)
• add binary apply (#7160)
• Allow pl.Int32 Series as output in eager repeat. (#7152)
• improve error message when read_csv fails (#7150)
• Improve usability of Null type. (#7136)
• add glob support to scan_ndjson (#7143)
• add Expr.pipe (#7134)
• streaming: scale chunk_size on table width (#7119)
• additional read functions (#7102)
• More ergonomic explode args (#7115)

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix(rust, python); make list function 'map' and refactor multi-arg ex… (#7185)
• Fix Series.argsort (#7183)
• validate trees before inserting streaming node (#7179)
• Raise ValueError for getitem when column indexes are out… (#7167)
• fix list take logical types (#7163)
• fix null cmp fast paths (#7157)
• fix df division dispatch (#7155)
• don't panic un unsupported arithmetic type (#7154)
• don't let a cast unset agg_state and keep logical … (#7151)
• expose sort expressions to stack-optimizer (#7148)
• improve error message when read_csv fails (#7150)
• make cast unknown a no-op (#7147)
• fix panic on cum_prod (#7141)
• respect f32 schema in deep expressions (#7146)
• fix return type of _unpack_schema to prevent potential TypeError (#7128)
• fix docstring in set_tbl_cols() (#7121)
• fix deadlock in scan_csv()->sink_parquet() (#7118)
• subtracting Series from date has wrong sign (#7107)
• fix scan_ipc receiving storage_options (#7085)
• nested sql exprs (#7112)

🛠️ Other improvements

• ensure binary branches are executed in parall… (#7193)
• Deprecate pl.get_dummies (#7055)
• Add Series.cut, deprecate pl.cut (#7058)
• examples functional programing (#7135)
• fix docstring in set_tbl_cols() (#7121)
• Build versioned API reference (#7114)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@MarcoGorelli, @Trippy3, @alexander-beedie, @foxcroftjn, @ghuls, @iamsmkr, @jakob-keller, @josh, @mslapek, @papparapa, @ritchie46, @romanovacca, @stinodego, @universalmind303 and @zundertj