Python Polars 0.16.18

🚀 Performance improvements

• improve group_tuples of high cardinality data ~10% (#7938)

✨ Enhancements

• Add seed argument to rank for random (#7913)
• Support Numpy ufunc with more than one expression (#7924)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix lazy encode schema (#7912)
• respect skip_nulls in apply for temporal types (#7908)

🛠️ Other improvements

• Rename argument f to function in reduce docstring (#7925)
• improve docstrings for numeric/math operator-equivalent methods (#7942)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@MarcoGorelli, @alexander-beedie, @alonme, @ankane, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @lorentzenchr, @rben01, @ritchie46 and @zundertj