What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only

Re:What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only by joshuamorton on Sunday March 03, 2019 @04:02PM (#19296841)

When I can write

    import pandas as pd
    data = pd.read_csv(filename)
    print(data.sum())

and have the same result, I'm going to do the one that is faster to write, fewer characters, and lets me understand what's going on.

And don't get me wrong, I've written some gnarly pipelined bash before, although I'm by no means an expert, but that doesn't mean its always the right tool for the job.

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Re:What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only by redsavagefiero on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:55PM (#19297741)

I was going to be the long haired *nix geek here but I have no hair and the world is moving on. I can't pick bones with python for data science/analysis and personal convenience. _However_ as a principal engineer if someone was to say, for a trivial dataset, that we need python and pandas for an operation like this where python + pandas was not already provisioned the answer would be no.

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