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GridSearch and RandomSearch take way too long, therefor I prefer bayesian HPO ([Example picture between Grid, Random, Bayes HPO](https://www.kaggleusercontent.com/kf/12981074/eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMTI4Q0JDLUhTMjU2In0..4WqE0qF61wak2h-ylBJmcw.L8KDPmGUJSIVqbGpc2rny_-qNqbI0coSG2VJ9ZVfFMk2qLTjo6cM2VnjEKrnQQQRoYHC_PLGvHTEj18BcaqZOZhWPbmpfqbXFgbOOGDKuJCyPaS5Pdz4YMOS1pKLtlk4qGlgDdlvatNTAaTEaQi3LNw7RmnPhxdQiC3vqWgV0--5BO-zL7BtdV1GV-rupg4Ayp9HWJvyTuTfk48Sa2V4fHkjzoSTg2M6dXhlyBuore-5s6nXwnYhdQbeu1eC435NsRgDB2PAUNH2UHUnDaUw3jq4u7DR8n-uzCFeSP_QQU6qLZeT1UeeQjDF_iifUFMz_58iWGRSua3wo7F19-MKrO8Dpy1aMa95VSW9xLIojRkSIQ4pb_4tvLC9xbWi9b-c14Jj39bVNBvI-xYPQxKyiq-_YHiYNMn1FrzrNYXgsKlU-MeiLgH_UUynfiFJEThegttUIgIT4tKi3YdfIFO5dLsA0223813tmT-HkphvWuGxNifSZFEA0aI_jEfeoRnpYyLa9vUFAXCI1NBgeJmjsvn08RclBkLeTTsAYUFXN1bM-KwA_5H_dVPJAyTPRxci1bSXELa-a7qfNXS0N5WCrJJzHRbb1Yn7tCD_aye8eS07JFWmY2UinUNOKdlPsQS_bf_lBNJCXARMNbuWUHcxLEYVzAtkhElTkM68qr_weoA.rImTQCQjyrzN9YCPUSGYxg/__results___files/__results___25_0.png) - Source: https://www.kaggle.com/fanvacoolt/tutorial-on-hyperopt. Is there a way to use this package...

adding "usecols" as parameter for pl.read_excel()

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### Description I have an excel file I want to read into a dataframe but I only need 2 columns. In pandas I could do: `df = pd.read_excel("file.xlsx", usecols=["col_A", "col_B"]`...

`from_pandas` incorrectly handles object columns in some cases

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### Problem description I use polars 0.19.1 and Python 3.11.5. I have a script that takes a query, loads that into a pandas dataframe, convert to a polars dataframe and...