Just saw that. Seems like a very smart way to get us important functionality while we continue to push things forward. Would be very cool if we could make it possible to switch between the Pandas and native Julia implementations totally seamlessly.
— John On Jan 23, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds reasonable. As a temporary measure for people who want that > functionality immediately, I've taken a stab at wrapping pandas in a Julia > package (just as pyplot does for matplotlib), at > https://github.com/malmaud/pandas. > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:17:40 AM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote: > Yeah, at some point in the future I’d like to see if we can imitate the > experimental query() and eval() methods from Pandas. > > It’s the fact that those methods were just recently introduced which made me > decide we needed to stop spending time on getting them working right now. > We’re way behind Pandas in terms of performance and reliability, so it’s a > bad idea for us to try being as feature complete until we catch up. > > — John > > On Jan 23, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Pandas has a 'query' method > > (http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/indexing.html#indexing-query) > > which uses the Python numexpr package for delayed evaluation (if i > > understand what you mean by that in this context). >
