datasketches-python

This is a patch release that makes a one-line change to enable compatibility with muslinux-based alpine images for Docker.

This is also a patch release that fixes an issue with wheels for Apple Silicon Macs. As a rapid-follow match to a major release, the release notes describing the significant changes are:

• Vastly improved API documentation via sphinx
• More pythonic API:
• copy instead of C++-style copy constructors
• str takes no arguments in all cases
• Moved from pybind11 to nanobind, which also requires C++17 internally
• Added new exact proportional to size sampling sketch, ebpps_sketch
• Fixed slowness with theta intersection
• Fixed incompatibility with Java's serialized empty frequent items sketch
• Removed default Kernel for density sketch (GaussianKernel is still provided)
• Removed extra (largely transparent to users) wrappers around density_sketch and tuple_sketch
• Added NOMINSIZE to nanobind config, increasing performance at the cost of a slightly larger wheel

This is also a major version release with several significant changes:

• Vastly improved API documentation via sphinx
• More pythonic API:
  • __copy__ instead of C++-style copy constructors
  • __str__ takes no arguments in all cases
• Moved from pybind11 to nanobind, which also requires C++17 internally
• Added new exact proportional to size sampling sketch, ebpps_sketch
• Fixed slowness with theta intersection
• Fixed incompatibility with Java's serialized empty frequent items sketch
• Removed default Kernel for density sketch (GaussianKernel is still provided)
• Removed extra (largely transparent to users) wrappers around density_sketch and tuple_sketch
• Added NOMINSIZE to nanobind config, increasing performance at the cost of a slightly larger wheel

Known issue:

• Wheels intended for Apple Silicon Macs are mistakenly compiled for x86_64 architecture (will be fixed in forthcoming 5.0.1)