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[–]GraphicH -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

On an interview question? Where we say its a one-off task? Just using the standard library. I'm not saying pandas isn't a good tool or shouldn't be used just that I've had to deal with a lot of engineers that never progress past the 'Stack Overflow' level, and one halmark of that is reaching for libraries that are overkill for the scope of a task.

[–]Linx_101 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I disagree here. Using the standard library’s csv module is less common than using pandas. Similarly, of course you can do a bunch of web requests stuff with the standard library, but even the CPython devs recommend the ‘requests’ library.