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Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

56 mentions on Hacker News by 49 people: 11 stories, 45 comments · first 2013-09-30 · latest 2026-03-13

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  1. It does appear to potentially be possible: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/64585
  2. …bridging components. I built a simple bridge myself and ran some tests using the pandas project ( https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas ), which has more than 30,000 issues. Even storing only metadata (such as title and type, excluding the…
  3. …I wanted an easy weekend project that positively impacts many people this is what I'd work on. [0] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/pandas/io/exc...
  4. …but "BUG: Categorical columns using the PyArrow backend requires 4x more memory" (open) https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/58062 : > On disk Parquet appears to store the category data as logical type String which is compressed…
    comment by westurner · 2025-07-30 · in Writing memory efficient C structs
  5. https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/58623
    comment by dkdcio · 2025-06-20 · in Open source can't coordinate?
  6. …install tqdm by default. pandas-dev/pandas//pyproject.toml [project.optional-dependencies] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/8943c97c597677ae98... Dask solves for various adjacent problems; IDK if pandas, dask, or dask-cudf would…
  7. …backwards compatibility: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38332787/pandas-to-sql-t... + https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/57049#issuecomme...
    comment by swaraj · 2025-02-11 · in We are destroying software
  8. …complexity around strings in Pandas. That said there is a branch that gets most of the way there: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/58578 . The remaining challenges are mostly around getting consensus around how to introduce this…
  9. hm https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/pandas/io/par... says "fastparquet" engine must be available if no pyarrow https://pypi.org/project/fastparquet/
    comment by mistrial9 · 2024-05-08 · in The Birth of Parquet
  10. there is pull request to integrate in both pydantic extra types and into pandas cose [1] [1]: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/53999
    comment by dlahoda · 2024-02-20 · in Help Us Build Our Roadmap – Pydantic
  11. And for an example of the practical limits of @overload, take a look at the Pandas type hints: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/dc5586baa9e4731805... Meanwhile it's not even possible to express such things in other static type…
    comment by nerdponx · 2024-01-29 · in Python types have an expectations problem
  12. …or intellectual property law to ensure that you're in compliance with all legal requirements. [1] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/LICENSE
    comment by craigmi · 2023-05-17 · in Pandas AI
  13. …the same URL. They might be updating it... the closest I found was the Sphinx docs source for that: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/doc/source/wh...
    comment by kinow · 2023-04-03 · in Pandas 2.0
  14. PDEP-8 suggesting various changes regarding the `inplace` and `copy` arguments: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/51466
    comment by rekahrv · 2023-03-27 · in When is inplace in Python Pandas faster?
  15. …doing, but not enough to actually memorize all of it. I have this printed off and hung on my wall. https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/main/doc/cheatshee...
  16. …be aware that pandas might not be fully compatible with SQLAlchemy 2.0 yet. Some github issues: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/40686 https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/40460 I'm not actively following how compatible…
    comment by kh1 · 2023-01-27 · in SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released
  17. …1563 open issues labeled with a bug tag [0]. So much for "all the bugs have been ironed out". [0] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3...
    comment by lr1970 · 2023-01-22 · in Replacing Pandas with Polars
  18. Setting Inplace=True is not recommended and should be used with caution https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/16529
    comment by nojito · 2021-05-03 · in Practical SQL for Data Analysis
  19. Pandas silently converts to different dates within the same column https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/12585
  20. Some discussion here, though these people also don't seem to have much info either: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/39862 One person seems to have narrowed the violation down to a zipfile version of the docs available on the…
  21. …provide native support for CSV parsing. For example see docs for Microsoft C# [3]. ---------- [1] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/v1.0.3/pandas/io/p... [2] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/v1.0.3/pandas/io/p... [3]…
    comment by valera_rozuvan · 2020-05-15 · in So you want to write your own CSV code (2014)
  22. …verflow.com/questions/56690909/python-is-facin... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/56705419/978424 [3] https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/761bceb77d44aa63b7...
    comment by ololobus · 2020-01-30 · in Pandas 1.0
  23. …that decide what "[d]type" a Block--the most basic thing that stores data in pandas--should be. https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/4edcc5541ff3f6470f... And then, for the ubiquitous Object dtype, often figure out which of the many…
    comment by closed · 2020-01-30 · in Pandas 1.0
  24. I searched, and this is the closest thing ( https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/11503 ) but it is not the issue I experienced. I'm not sure how to submit a bug report, to be honest.
  25. Another more obscure one: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/27206 All of a sudden, a numpy release pulls in a new version for a pandas build (that incidentally breaks for py2) This without involving a "~=", but rather because…
    comment by Chris2048 · 2019-08-12 · in Python Is Eating the World
  26. …engine = "python") 1: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/panda... 2: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/22435
    comment by closed · 2018-08-29 · in Python Pandas: Tricks and Features
  27. …(for larger sets, since according to pandas authors it is faster after a certain threshold). See https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/pandas/core...
    comment by proto-n · 2018-02-08 · in Python’s Weak Performance Matters
  28. …notebook from .ipynb to LaTeX. The Pandas _repr_latex_() function calls to_latex(escape=True † ). https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/pandas/core... †* The default value of escape ️ (and a few other presentational parameters)…
  29. …per-se, but the article made it sounds like he's still dedicated to improvements of pandas). https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/graphs/contributors
    comment by Bishonen88 · 2017-12-08 · in Wes McKinney, the developer of Pandas
  30. …mention the huge contributions from the wider community toward pandas (shout-out to Jeff Reback!) https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/graphs/contributors
    comment by aklein · 2017-12-08 · in Wes McKinney, the developer of Pandas
  31. …can be expressed with RDF Data Cubes vocabulary And then SDMX is widely used internationally: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/3402#issuecommen...
    comment by westurner · 2017-09-16 · in Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? (2017)
  32. …are not # authorized) Some pandas function can have issues with read-only buffer though: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/17192 (caused by a currently unsolved bug / limitation of Cython) but it can work for your use case.
    comment by ogrisel · 2017-08-16 · in Let's Remove the Global Interpreter Lock
  33. The Pandas library is not written in C at all actually. You can view the source here: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/tree/master/pandas It's mostly Python with a bit of Cython, and pull requests that are not pure Python are more…
  34. …are accepted) - Coverage [3] There's also Code Climate [4] for some more introspection. [1]: https://github.com/pydata/pandas [2]: https://travis-ci.org [3]: https://codecov.io/ [4]: https://codeclimate.com/
  35. …Pandas...but was rejected as being unpythonic. Oh and the devs claimed Apache Arrow was vaporware ! https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/12381
  36. …Can what dask is doing, be adapted to a simple case scenario of saving a workspace snapshot? [1] https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/12381#issuecomment-1...
    comment by sandGorgon · 2016-02-27 · in Distributed NumPy Arrays
  37. I found the pandas tests to be a great source for implementing robust CSV parsers: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/pandas/io/tests...
  38. Here's the link to the Pandas DataFrame source: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/pandas/core/fra... We spent a month of Sundays going through this in the NYC Python office hours. You learn a lot about this object by reading the…
    comment by aaronchall · 2015-07-16 · in Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?
  39. The loading time is probably because of the way they are using the ORM: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/8953 I guess it also isn't a great approach to do row based filtering using a data frame.
    comment by maxerickson · 2015-04-11 · in Data analytics with Pandas and SQLite
  40. …clearly being on GitHub, it does not find their place, e.g. http://libraries.io/pypi/pandas vs https://github.com/pydata/pandas (4k+ stars).
  41. …pip install pandas' doesn't work (which it didn't for me recently), you'll get no love upstream: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/7517 As @mynegation notes, you can use Anaconda (or virtualenv).
    comment by jdf · 2014-10-20 · in Pandas 0.15 has been released
  42. …Oracle, Postgres, SQLite), Google Analytics Projects: - Open Source contributions to pandas ( https://github.com/pydata/pandas ) and tweepy ( https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy ) - My blog ( http://www.gregreda.com ), which has been at the…
  43. pandas (python data analysis library): https://github.com/pydata/pandas (friendly/helpful devs and easy to contribute)
  44. …for datetime string parsing: They have their own C function which parses ISO-8601 datetime strings: https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/2f1a6c412c3d1cbdf56610... They have a version of strptime written in cython:…
  45. …know which issues might be well suited to a new contributor jumping in (see "Good as first PR" in https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues for an example).