Release Python Polars 0.20.5 · pola-rs/polars

⚠️ Deprecations

Deprecate default delimiter value for str.concat (#13690)
Rename pl.count() to pl.len() (#13719)
Deprecate dt.with_time_unit in favor of cast(pl.Int64).cast(pl.Datetime(time_unit, time_zone)) (#13667)

Impl count_matches for array namespace (#13675)
Add nulls_last for list/array.sort (#13795)
convert fixed-offset timezones to respective Etc timezone from time zone database (#13738)
allow read_excel to load from remote http locations (#13753)
Expressify str.slice (#13747)
implement binview for polars-row (#13736)
implement binview for polars-json (#13737)
add architecture for polars-flavored IPC (#13734)
implement binview comparison kernels (#13715)
raise default frame/series repr height from 8 to 10 (#13699)

do not read data for zero-length compressed buffer (#13791)
Fix the non-null test of transpose (#13783)
Raise error instead of panic when joining on wildcard/nth (#13742)
str.concat correctly ignore single null value (#13751)
Selectors by_name and by_dtype should allow empty list as input (#11024)
Keep Series attributes docstrings when read by Sphinx (#13731)
fix error message when creating DataFrame from 0-dimensional NumPy array (#13729)
support corr() for single-column DataFrames (#13728)
Use NonZeroUsize for batch_size parameter in write_csv/sink_csv/scan_ndjson (#13726)
error instead of panicking in sql if empty function (#13691)

Fix typo in deprecation message of with_row_count (#13793)
Fix incorrect "coming from pandas" syntax (#13767)
Improve streaming section of the user guide (#13750)
improve n_unique and approx_n_unique docs (#13752)
add missing Series.str.find reference (#13717)
Be more explicit about behaviour in str.strip_chars / strip_chars_start / strip_chars_end docstrings (#13697)
Add doc example for datetime_ranges (#13695)
document %A and %B to get day name and month name (#13678)