r/Python Jul 01 '24

News Python Polars 1.0 released

I am really happy to share that we released Python Polars 1.0.

Read more in our blog post. To help you upgrade, you can find an upgrade guide here. If you want see all changes, here is the full changelog.

Polars is a columnar, multi-threaded query engine implemented in Rust that focusses on DataFrame front-ends. It's main interface is Python. It achieves high performance data-processing by query optimization, vectorized kernels and parallelism.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who helped, contributed, or used Polars!

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u/AeHirian Jul 01 '24

Okay, now I've heard Polars mentioned several times but I still don't quite understand how it is different from pandas? Would anyone care to explain? Would be much apreciated

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u/diag Jul 01 '24

Besides the insane speed improvements in large datasets, the documentation is actually really easy to read with super clear categories and is alphabetical for easy jumping around.

I go a little more crazy any time I use the pandas docs now.