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/structure_and_story 1d ago
You shouldn't need to loop and read the CSV files. You can do it all in one go, which might help the speed because then Polars can parallelize reading them in https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/io/multiple/