polars
High-performance DataFrame library for Python ETL, analytics, and pandas migration. Use for expression-based data manipulation with lazy query optimization, parallel execution, streaming out-of-core processing, Arrow interoperability, and optional GPU execution.
- Version
- 1.2
- License
- https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/main/LICENSE
- Compatibility
- Requires Python 3.10+ for polars 1.41.x. Install with uv pip install; optional extras enable Excel, database, cloud, pandas/NumPy, and GPU integrations.
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Files
- skills/polars/SKILL.md
- skills/polars/references/best_practices.md
- skills/polars/references/core_concepts.md
- skills/polars/references/io_guide.md
- skills/polars/references/operations.md
- skills/polars/references/pandas_migration.md
- skills/polars/references/transformations.md
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