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This article compares dplyr syntax with pandas, siuba, polars, ibis and duckdb: https://simmering.dev/blog/dataframes/

As other have said, escaping pandas is hard. Many visualization and data manipulation, validation and analysis libraries expect pandas input.

Siuba is really cool in that it offers a convenient syntax on top of pandas (and SQL databases) without requiring its own data format.