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brandon-b-miller opened this issue May 28, 2025 · 0 comments
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[FEA] Support polars.Expr.str.head in cudf-polars #18995

brandon-b-miller opened this issue May 28, 2025 · 0 comments
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Today on branch-25.08, we lack support for polars.Expr.str.head. Running the example from the docs yields:

import polars as pl
engine = pl.GPUEngine(raise_on_fail=True)

df = pl.DataFrame({"s": ["pear", None, "papaya", "dragonfruit"]}).lazy()
df = df.with_columns(pl.col("s").str.head(5).alias("s_head_5"))

res = df.collect(engine=engine)
print(res)

NotImplementedError: String function <Name.Head: 14>

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like the above code to be able to execute using the polars GPU backend. This API returns the first n characters of all the strings, accepting both a scalar argument or a column argument containing many n for an elementwise version. At first glance it seems these may map nicely to each overload of cudf::strings::slice_strings.

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#16480

@brandon-b-miller brandon-b-miller added the feature request New feature or request label May 28, 2025
@wence- wence- added the cudf.polars Issues specific to cudf.polars label May 28, 2025
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