Why “polars” is being discussed
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Unfortunately (for your case) the ordering of group_by, join, and unique all run in parallel hash aggregation across the threads so the output order comes about by how it gets p…
by jorelfermin · Sep 3, 2026
Well, I prefer the polars version. And now if I want to reuse the CTEs elsewhere, I have to reach out to another tool like DBT or hand roll something to do string manipulation.
by throwaway7783 · Sep 3, 2026
Really? You've written out all the ratios and thresholds manually. If a user wanted to change the set of thresholds the polars way is far superior. In what way do you consider t…
by bobson_dugnutt5 · Sep 3, 2026
End of the day, they both get the job done. Pandas is more ergonomic in that some ideas can be more tersely represented. The downside is that this results in more dynamism which…
by 0cf8612b2e1e · Sep 3, 2026
Polars is much better than pandas in this regard. But using it via Python still carries the risk of runtime errors. Python's linters leave many holes unfilled - it catches some…
by perrygeo · Sep 3, 2026
You can still have extensive "compile-time" checking with linters and static type checkers. This makes Polars even better in typed Python, as it type-checks much better than the…
by maleldil · Sep 3, 2026
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