[ENH] maintain sorted array for conditional join (#1398)

* more control on how the final dataframe is created

* fix doctests

* fix doctest for polars.pivot_longer

* fix bird_call.ipynb ruff

* fix board_games.ipynb ruff

* fix complete.ipynb ruff

* fix french_trains.ipynb ruff

* fix medium_franchise.ipynb ruff

* fix teacher_pupil.ipynb

* fix scipy2019 slides ruff

* add support for ragged arrays

* fix test failure

* make equi join align with non-equi join numba

* cleanup tests

* fail early if df or right is empty

* fix doctest

* remove irrelevant comments

* improve perf for equal indices

* add TODO for equi joins

* keep faster equi-join

* abstract sorted_array operation to separate function

* minor refactor

* switch to miniforge

* update miniconda setup

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Co-authored-by: samuel.oranyeli <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Eric Ma <[email protected]>

Author: 3 people

.github/workflows/docs.yml

@@ -23,12 +23,11 @@ jobs:
 
       # See: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-miniconda
       - name: Setup miniconda
-        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
         with:
           auto-update-conda: true
-          miniforge-variant: Mambaforge
           environment-file: environment-dev.yml
-          use-mamba: true
+          miniforge-version: latest
 
       - name: Install pyjanitor
         # use editable mode to avoid _pytest.pathlib.ImportPathMismatchError

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -41,13 +41,11 @@ jobs:
 
       # See: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-miniconda
       - name: Setup miniconda
-        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
         with:
           auto-update-conda: true
-          miniforge-variant: Mambaforge
-          channels: conda-forge
           environment-file: environment-dev.yml
-          use-mamba: true
+          miniforge-version: latest
 
       - name: Install pyjanitor
         run: python -m pip install -e .