Python Polars 0.17.7

🚀 Performance improvements

• remove false sharing in perfect hash table >2x (#8432)
• further optimised conversions to python date/datetime (#8417)

✨ Enhancements

• initial parametric/hypothesis Decimal dtype testing strategy (note: disabled by default) (#8430)
• add Series support to pl.from_repr (#8429)
• Allow %f in strptime format strings (#8404)

🐞 Bug fixes

• raise upon invalid use of zero_copy_only (#8418)
• respect dtype in anonymous list builder in case of… (#8428)
• str.strptime error message: utf -> utc (#8422)

🛠️ Other improvements

• initial parametric/hypothesis Decimal dtype testing strategy (note: disabled by default) (#8430)

Thank you to all our contributors for making this release possible!
@alexander-beedie, @ayemjay, @jonashaag, @mzjp2, @pgimalac, @ritchie46 and @stinodego