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Re:Show HN: sheet2dict – simple Python XLSX/CSV reader/to di... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:48AM (#26890353)
> I usually import CSVs into a Python Pandas Dataframe and then iterate over the dataframe in a loop

Isn’t a big point of dataframes providing tools that are more efficient so you don’t have to use Python loops for operations across a body of data?

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Re:Show HN: sheet2dict – simple Python XLSX/CSV reader/to di... by BugsJustFindMe on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:38AM (#26891081)
Yes. Manually looping over rows in a dataframe is wildly inefficient.
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