feat: allow any ddof value for duckdb var and std

Author: FBruzzesi

narwhals/_duckdb/expr.py

@@ -460,27 +460,32 @@ def len(self: Self) -> Self:
         )
 
     def std(self: Self, ddof: int) -> Self:
-        if ddof == 1:
-            func = "stddev_samp"
-        elif ddof == 0:
-            func = "stddev_pop"
-        else:
-            msg = f"std with ddof {ddof} is not supported in DuckDB"
-            raise NotImplementedError(msg)
+        def _std(_input: duckdb.Expression, ddof: int) -> duckdb.Expression:
+            n_samples = FunctionExpression("count", _input)
+
+            return (
+                FunctionExpression("stddev_pop", _input)
+                * FunctionExpression("sqrt", n_samples)
+                / (FunctionExpression("sqrt", (n_samples - ddof)))
+            )
+
         return self._from_call(
-            lambda _input: FunctionExpression(func, _input), "std", returns_scalar=True
+            _std,
+            "std",
+            ddof=ddof,
+            returns_scalar=True,
         )
 
     def var(self: Self, ddof: int) -> Self:
-        if ddof == 1:
-            func = "var_samp"
-        elif ddof == 0:
-            func = "var_pop"
-        else:
-            msg = f"var with ddof {ddof} is not supported in DuckDB"
-            raise NotImplementedError(msg)
+        def _var(_input: duckdb.Expression, ddof: int) -> duckdb.Expression:
+            n_samples = FunctionExpression("count", _input)
+            return FunctionExpression("var_pop", _input) * n_samples / (n_samples - ddof)
+
         return self._from_call(
-            lambda _input: FunctionExpression(func, _input), "var", returns_scalar=True
+            _var,
+            "var",
+            ddof=ddof,
+            returns_scalar=True,
         )
 
     def max(self: Self) -> Self:

tests/expr_and_series/std_test.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from contextlib import nullcontext as does_not_raise
-
 import pytest
 
 import narwhals.stable.v1 as nw
@@ -34,19 +32,14 @@ def test_std(constructor: Constructor, input_data: dict[str, list[float | None]]
         "z_ddof_0": [0.816497],
     }
     assert_equal_data(result, expected_results)
-    context = (
-        pytest.raises(NotImplementedError)
-        if "duckdb" in str(constructor)
-        else does_not_raise()
+
+    result = df.select(
+        nw.col("b").std(ddof=2).alias("b_ddof_2"),
     )
-    with context:
-        result = df.select(
-            nw.col("b").std(ddof=2).alias("b_ddof_2"),
-        )
-        expected_results = {
-            "b_ddof_2": [1.632993],
-        }
-        assert_equal_data(result, expected_results)
+    expected_results = {
+        "b_ddof_2": [1.632993],
+    }
+    assert_equal_data(result, expected_results)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("input_data", [data, data_with_nulls])

tests/expr_and_series/var_test.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from contextlib import nullcontext as does_not_raise
-
 import pytest
 
 import narwhals.stable.v1 as nw
@@ -34,19 +32,14 @@ def test_var(constructor: Constructor, input_data: dict[str, list[float | None]]
         "z_ddof_0": [0.6666666666666666],
     }
     assert_equal_data(result, expected_results)
-    context = (
-        pytest.raises(NotImplementedError)
-        if "duckdb" in str(constructor)
-        else does_not_raise()
+
+    result = df.select(
+        nw.col("b").var(ddof=2).alias("b_ddof_2"),
     )
-    with context:
-        result = df.select(
-            nw.col("b").var(ddof=2).alias("b_ddof_2"),
-        )
-        expected_results = {
-            "b_ddof_2": [2.666666666666667],
-        }
-        assert_equal_data(result, expected_results)
+    expected_results = {
+        "b_ddof_2": [2.666666666666667],
+    }
+    assert_equal_data(result, expected_results)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("input_data", [data, data_with_nulls])

tests/group_by_test.py

@@ -137,11 +137,7 @@ def test_group_by_depth_1_agg(
         ("var", 2),
     ],
 )
-def test_group_by_depth_1_std_var(
-    constructor: Constructor, attr: str, ddof: int, request: pytest.FixtureRequest
-) -> None:
-    if "duckdb" in str(constructor) and ddof == 2:
-        request.applymarker(pytest.mark.xfail)
+def test_group_by_depth_1_std_var(constructor: Constructor, attr: str, ddof: int) -> None:
     data = {"a": [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2], "b": [4, 5, 6, 0, 5, 5]}
     _pow = 0.5 if attr == "std" else 1
     expected = {
@@ -398,8 +394,6 @@ def test_all_kind_of_aggs(
         # and modin lol https://github.com/modin-project/modin/issues/7414
         # and cudf https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/17649
         request.applymarker(pytest.mark.xfail)
-    if "duckdb" in str(constructor):
-        request.applymarker(pytest.mark.xfail)
     if "pandas" in str(constructor) and PANDAS_VERSION < (1, 4):
         # Bug in old pandas, can't do DataFrameGroupBy[['b', 'b']]
         request.applymarker(pytest.mark.xfail)