Python Polars 0.17.3

🏆 Highlights

• support DataFrame init from pydantic model data (#8178)

🚀 Performance improvements

• fail fast on non-inferable strings in strptime if no fmt is provided (#8111)
• make chunks search more resilient (#8229)
• SIMD accelerated arg_min/arg_max (via argminmax) (#8074)
• speed up csv parsing for slower datetimes formats (#8213)
• improve datetime interpret perf (#8209)
• arr.eval run on groupby expression engine when possible (#8199)
• ~2-3x speedup for DataFrame init from pydantic models (#8181)

✨ Enhancements

• add use_earliest argument to replace_time_zone for dealing with ambiguous datetimes (#8087)
• fail loudly on .%f directive, as it differs from the Python standard library (#8237)
• SQL CTE's (#8208)
• automatically convert series OP expr -> pl.lit(series) OP expr where OP is arithmetic (#8225)
• add pickle support for LazyFrame (#8220)
• add duration cumsum and remainder (#8219)
• support DataFrame init from nested dataclass, pydantic, and NamedTuple objects (#8185)
• better algorithm for streaming unique (#8003)
• Add approx distinct count via approx_unique() (#7937)
• add percentiles to describe methods (#8169)
• support DataFrame init from pydantic model data (#8178)
• display skipped row if same number of rows (#8170)

🐞 Bug fixes

• add special numpy float branch in anyvalue conversion (#8259)
• fix boolean par materialization (#8257)
• improve null/empty list construction (#8255)
• fix offsets in parallel utf8 materialization (#8254)
• nested struct logical type consistency (#8249)
• keep literal state if elementwise function is applied (#8195)
• decimal ensure backed arrow arrays have correct dtype (#8193)

🛠️ Other improvements

• parametric/hypothesis testing code cleanups (#8253)
• Rename strptime/strftime args (#8221)
• change sampling ratio for groupby strategy (#8223)
• Rename Expr.list to implode (#8165)
• don't panic on err in offset_by (#8210)
• re-enable test parallization for Windows tests (#8214)
• Fix small typo: "im memory" -> "in memory" (#8187)
• remove unused dtype_to_arrow_type (#8177)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@MarcoGorelli, @alexander-beedie, @avimallu, @borchero, @chitralverma, @clickingbuttons, @ghuls, @josh, @jvdd, @rben01, @ritchie46, @stinodego and @universalmind303