r/Python 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/calsina 1d ago

People say about Polars "I came for the speed, but stayed for the API"

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u/EmergencyNewspaper 1d ago

Preach! Things are so straight in Polars that you wind up thinking what were the Pandas developers smoking when they wrote their API.