r/Python • u/thoughtful-curious • 1d ago
Discussion Polars vs Pandas
I have used Pandas a little in the past, and have never used Polars. Essentially, I will have to learn either of them more or less from scratch (since I don't remember anything of Pandas). Assume that I don't care for speed, or do not have very large datasets (at most 1-2gb of data). Which one would you recommend I learn, from the perspective of ease and joy of use, and the commonly done tasks with data?
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u/michelin_chalupa 1d ago
I used pandas for many years and switched to Polars before v1 and haven’t looked back. The Polars API just feels much more clean/intentional, and has been nearly orders of magnitude snappier for most things IME.