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mmmmpancakes | 2 years ago

i mean, if you are reading and writing csv then yeah, you've already fucked up.

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hermitcrab|2 years ago

CSV is a terrible format. But it is extensively used. See also:

Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220841

mmmmpancakes|2 years ago

parquet is perfectly fine

> There is Parquet. It is very efficient with it’s columnar storage and compression. But it is binary, so can’t be viewed or edited with standard tools, which is a pain.

I can open parquet in excel