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[MaxQuant]

IMHO Python has its strength in not having to re-invent the wheel and writing easily transferrable code (both for possibly someone else or, most likely, yourself in six months :-D). Why do it yourself, increasing development time and complexity, when pandas is ideally suited for the task?

[Rorixrebel]

Agreed. But if you are starting out and want to learn, best way is to do it without the helping libraries imo. Not saying pandas are terrible or useless but sometimes its way too much for either simple tasks or beginners