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* [python-package] add type hints on Dataset constructors

* fix __init_from_list_np2d() hint

* add return type

* define a DatasetHandle type

[python-package] fix type hints on cptr converters

* [python-package] add type hints on Booster eval methods

* remove unnecessary changes

* fix hints

* [python-package] add more type hints in basic.py

* Booster handle is a c_void_p

[python-package] highlight the path a sample takes through a tree in `plot_tree` and `create_tree_digraph` (fixes #4784) (#5119)

* highlight path in plot_tree

* lint

* rename x to example_case. support categorical features. add test

* lint

* check for exactly one row. test empty example_case

* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

* handle missing values in numeric splits

* remove literal. add categorical split function

* make categorical feature more important. lint

* add enum. update categorical split. apply suggestions

* update numeric split decision

* lint

* Update python-package/lightgbm/plotting.py
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

MAINT Prefix NUMERIC_TYPES to make it a internal object

* refactor: 🎨 add statuc typing to a subset of basic functions

* refactor: 🎨 add statuc typing to a subset of basic functions

* revert black format on python basic functions file

* style: 🎨

 updating typing for c_array function

* branch rebase

* fix number of changed lines

* Update python-package/lightgbm/basic.py
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>
Co-authored-by: James Lamb <jaylamb20@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

* dump sorted parameter aliases

* update lgb.check.wrapper_param

* update _choose_param_value to look like lgb.check.wrapper_param

* apply suggestions from review

* reduce diff

* move DumpAliases to config

* remove unnecessary check

* restore parameter check

* [python-package] add more type hints on Booster

* add return to Callable

* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>
Co-authored-by: Nikita Titov <nekit94-08@mail.ru>

* Adjust LGBM_DatasetCreateFromSampledColumn to handle distributed data better

* linting fix

* switch to 1 API with breaking change

* Fix pything native call

* more python test fixes