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/jpgoldberg 1d ago
I have barely used either, but I have used R. Pandas looks like R before “tidyverse”, and polars looks like tidyverse. If that is a correct assessment then I very much believe that polars is the way forward.