The main reason to use Python is that you get a lot more options than what's included in most spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are ...

I'll usually use it to do bulk operations on data, then do the final bits of manipulation inside pandas. Also, Pandas 2.0 is coming out soon, which will have the new (opt-in) Arrow backend.

There’s more than one way to thread (or not to thread) a Python program. We point you to several threading resources, a fast new static type checker from Astral, a monkey patch for Pandas that ...