Ring:

ADOPT

Polars is a library providing a DataFrame structure and operations much like Pandas. It is written as a Rust crate and also proviedes a Python API on top.

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A robust tool, including support for a variety of different file formats that is useful for any ad-hoc analysis so it is in adopt. If performance is key consider trying Polars and falling back to Pandas if Polars lacks support for the use case.