narwhals 1.44.0

Narwhals v1.44.0

on Python PyPI

Changes

🚀 Performance improvements

• fix, perf: avoid np.repeat for broadcasting (#2711)

✨ Enhancements

• feat: Add support for Expr.str.zfill (#2598)

🐞 Bug fixes

• fix: Set Ibis time_unit and time_zone for Datetime dtype conversion (#2709)
• fix: raise NotImplementedError instead of returning it (#2710)
• fix, perf: avoid np.repeat for broadcasting (#2711)
• fix(typing): Resolve intermittent *GroupBy variance issue (#2694)
• fix: ensure generate_temporary_column_name result always starts with character (#2699)

🛠️ Other improvements

• ci: pin scipy (#2725)
• test: refactor arithmetic floordiv and mod (#2702)
• fix: update tests for cuDF 25.08.00a (#2700)
• ci: update plotly downstream tests (#2701)
• chore: use _expr_from_elementwise in IbisNamespace (#2716)
• typing: restore NativeSeriesT to EagerDataFrame and EagerNamespace, avoid unnecessary broadcast in eager when/then/otherwise (#2693)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@EdAbati, @MarcoGorelli, @camriddell, @dangotbanned, @rwhitten577 and @williambdean