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Re:I'm Coding by Hand by usernametaken29 on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:52PM (#47811433)
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.
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by BodyCulture on Saturday April 18, 2026 @02:57AM (#47813735)
What are you using instead of pandas? Thanks!
Re:I'm Coding by Hand by usernametaken29 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @07:13PM (#47820348)
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