Bump version of the Python binding 0.5.7 (delta-io#589)

Bump version of Python binding to 0.5.6 (delta-io#558)

Bump version of pyo3 to 0.15 and bump version of the Python binding t…

…o 0.5.5 (delta-io#547)

Clean up expired delta table commit logs after checkpoint (delta-io#484)

Release Python binding version 0.5.3 (delta-io#439)

fix typo in python release CI config (delta-io#365)

add pandas keyword to python package metadata (delta-io#325)

closes delta-io#282

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into rust-v0.4.x

optimize vacuum operation (delta-io#258)

* optimize vacuum operation

Avoid repeatedly creating strings and vectors at runtime.

Turn O(n) path lookup into O(1) with Hashset.

Early exit in stale file check loop.

* rename table uri to table path everywhere for consistency

* change path in public methods to uri

* bump python version

Release Python bindings 0.4.8 (delta-io#241)