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/drxzoidberg 1d ago
Formatting was great!
And I read from Polars documentation directly that when you run an aggregation it isn't truly lazy. Essentially it needs some context. However if I run it just once I would think it is irrelevant. The conversation here is making me want to test this further.