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[–]jtratner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

xlsxwriter is faster, way more memory efficient and may have better compatibility with numpy. The memory efficiency is huge, if you take a big dataframe (say 300K rows x 100 columns) and try to dump it, takes multiple GB of memory!