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I would love to see some sort of "smarter" indexing in the engine. I use pandas quite a bit, but I've never really understood the rationale behind the indexing,

I would love to see some sort of "smarter" indexing in the engine. I use pandas quite a bit, but I've never really understood the rationale behind the indexing, especially why indexes are treated so separately from data columns. I seem to be resetting and recreating indexes all the time, and use the .values a lot. More SQL-style indexing would be a lot more intuitive at least for me.

nerdponx 9y ago
I used to hate it, but I've come around to its usefulness in some cases. However I do prefer the R data.table model, which is what you descibe. You can set an index on one or more columns in the table, and that's that.