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I am using pandas to read CSV file data, but the CSV module is also there to manage the CSV file.
so my questions are :-
what is the difference between these both?
what are the cons of using pandas over the CSV module?
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Pandas is better then csv for managing data and doing operations on the data. CSV doesn't provide you with the scientific data manipulation tools that Pandas does.
Read and write CSV datasets 7 times faster than with Pandas But boy is it slow when it comes to reading and saving data files. It's a huge time waster, especially if your datasets measure gigabytes in size.
A Surprising Performance Experiment The pyarrow library is able to construct a pandas. DataFrame faster than using pandas.
CSV files contains plain text and is a well know format that can be read by everyone including Pandas.
Based upon benchmarks
CSV is faster to load data for smaller datasets (< 1K rows)
Pandas is several times faster for larger datasets
Code to Generate Benchmarks
Benchmarks
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