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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (21 children)

Is 600 MB a lot for pandas? Of course, CSV isn't really optimal but I would've sworn pandas happily works with gigabytes of data.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

What do you mean not optimal? This is quite literally the most popular format for any serious data handling and exchange. One byte per separator and newline is all you need. It is not compressed so allows you to stream as well. If you don't need tree structure it is massively better than others

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I think portability and easy parsing is the only advantage od CSV. It's definitely good enough (maybe even the best) for small datasets but if you have a lot of data you need a compressed binary format, something like parquet.

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