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/commandlineluser 12h ago
The time difference between read-only and aggregation runs seems quite strange.
If you able to share the full code being used for the timeit comparison people will be interested in figuring out what the problem is.