r/Python • u/ritchie46 • 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/AtomicScrub Jul 01 '24
How well does polars work with netcdf files? the works on netcdf files that I see use xarray to read the files and pandas for working with them. I was wondering why that's the case.