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> Just to find how to do anything in Python I need to look at sites like stackoverflow Huh? Surely you don’t expect docs to answer generic questions like, “how
by sgarland 2y ago
> Just to find how to do anything in Python I need to look at sites like stackoverflow
Huh? Surely you don’t expect docs to answer generic questions like, “how do I flatten a nested list?”
Pandas (and Polars!) is an excellent library that serves specific needs. One of those is not doing basic file parsing. I’ve seen comments advocating its usage for tasks as simple as “read a CSV file in and get the Nth column.” The same goes for NumPy – powerful library that’s ridiculously over-used for things that are trivially solvable by stdlib.