Re:I'm Coding by Hand
by usernametaken29 on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:52PM
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I’ve worked in financial modelling before where you need to make sure results are correct, not approximate.
One time there was a nasty bug in pandas multiindexes (admittedly we banned pandas for all new code because it just can’t do semver).
Spent 9 days to debug three lines of code.
Endurance and patience are learned skills and sometimes they’re the only way you can get a correct verifiable solution.
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Re:I'm Coding by Hand
by BodyCulture on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:57AM
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What are you using instead of pandas? Thanks!
Re:I'm Coding by Hand
by usernametaken29 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @07:13PM
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Either nothing (a lot of functionality of pandas can be done with simple plain python) or polars for complex queries. Also look at the statistics module which has a lot of useful things in there