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> Pandas is the original open source data frame library

...ehh, not quite. R and its predecessor S have Pandas beat by decades. Pandas wasn't even the first data frame library for Python. But it sure is popular now.

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That's interesting! I didn't realize there had been prior dataframe libraries in Python!

Out of curiosity, what was/were the previous libraries?

it is built in data structure and function in R.

Oh, yes, I was aware that R (and its predecessor S) have a native dataframe object in the language.

It seemed that gmfawcett was indicating that there was a dataframe library in _Python_ that existed prior to Pandas. I was curious what that library was/is, as I'd not heard that before.

ok, guess I misunderstood both comments of you two. ´_>`

Sorry :) Pandas is undisputed king. But there were multiple bindings from Python into R available in the early 2000's. Some like rpy and rpy2 are still around, others are long defunct. I concede that these weren't standalone dataframe libraries, but rather dataframe features built into a language binding.

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