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Check out polars- I find it much more intuitive than pandas as it looks closer to SQL (and I learned SQL first). Maybe you'll feel the same way!

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I've looked at Polars. My sense is that Pandas is an interactive data analysis library poorly suited to production uses, and Polars is the other way around. Seemed quite verbose for example. Sometimes doing `series["2026"]` is exactly the right thing to type.

You can do that in Polars, too

With some of the newest 3.x changes like copy-on-write, I find pandas getting quite verbose now as well.

In a world where AI is writing the code, I guess I shouldn't complain, but when I am discovering something the ai of choice yet again missed, both pandas and polars still feel verbose and lacking sugar.

Agreed — I much prefer polars, too. IIRC the latest major version of pandas even introduced some polars-style syntax.

which makes sense because I believe that polars was written by the same guy that did pandas (hence the name - panda and polar are bears)

Polars is Ritchie Vink. Pandas is Wes McKinney.

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