Data Processing with Pandas

In most of my past work, I’ve always had a need to solve various sorts of data analysis problems. Prior to discovering Python, AWK and other assorted UNIX commands were my tools of choice. These days, I’ll mostly just code up a simple Python script (e.g., see the June 2012 ;login: article on using the collections module). Lately though, I’ve been  watching the growth of the Pandas library with considerable interest.