Unlike pandas/numpy, polars supports a decimal datatype. How this is done, I am not sure, since there is no decimal dtype in either the Apache Arrow specification or in pyarrow.
In any case, this alone makes it much more appropriate for dataframe support than pandas.
Unlike
pandas
/numpy
,polars
supports a decimal datatype. How this is done, I am not sure, since there is no decimal dtype in either the Apache Arrow specification or inpyarrow
.In any case, this alone makes it much more appropriate for dataframe support than
pandas
.