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by noo_u 134 days ago
Polars took a lot of ideas from Pandas and made them better - calling it "inferior in every way" is all sorts of disrespectful :P

Unfortunately, there are a lot of third party libraries that work with Pandas that do not work with Polars, so the switch, even for new projects, should be done with that in mind.
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skylurk 134 days ago
Luckily, polars has .to_pandas() so you can still pass pandas dataframes to the libraries that really are still stuck on that interface.

I maintain one of those libraries and everything is polars internally.

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adolph 134 days ago
> pandas dataframes

Didn't Pandas move to Arrow, matching Polars, in version 2?

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noo_u 134 days ago
to_pandas has a dependency on pandas - it is not the biggest of deals, but worth keeping in mind.
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