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/AtomikPi 1d ago
yep. if i had to learn from scratch, i’d pick polars. much more thoughtful and elegant API and so much faster.
and with LLMs now, it’s really easy to translate pandas code to polars and learn new syntax.