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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2024 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+
+import polars as pl
+
+from cudf_polars.dsl.expr import Expr
+import cudf._lib.pylibcudf as plc
+
+
+class NotImplementedExpr(Expr):
+    def do_evaluate(self, df, *, context, mapping):
+        raise NotImplementedError("Example Unsupported cuDF operation")
+
+
+def invoke_unimplemented_op(df):
+    # TODO: does not work
+    # df.select(NotImplementedExpr(plc.DataType(plc.TypeId.INT64)))
+    pass
+
+
+def test_polars_verbose_warns():
+    old_val = os.environ.get("POLARS_VERBOSE")
+    os.environ["POLARS_VERBOSE"] = "1"
+    df = pl.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2, 3]}).lazy()
+
+    invoke_unimplemented_op(df)
+
+    os.environ["POLARS_VERBOSE"] = old_val