What is polars built with?
polars is a Rust repo built with Flask, flask-cors, and Tokio. It stores its data in object_store, pyarrow, pyiceberg, deltalake, and DuckDB, reaches it with SQLAlchemy, signs people in with azure-identity, uses AI through jax and torch, makes its content with xlsxwriter and openpyxl, validates its data with schemars and Pydantic, is tested with pytest-cov, pytest-xdist, Pytest, Hypothesis, proptest, and 1 more, deploys with boto3, and uses aiosqlite, polars-io, pylance, s3fs, adbc-driver-manager, and 3 more. It has 953,615 written lines, with 671 test files.
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Frontend
Styles 2
- pydata-sphinx-theme
- sphinx-design
Interface 3
matplotlib1 file
- altair3 files
- comfy-table1 file
Backend
Data 13
pyarrow14 files
pyiceberg10 files
deltalake7 files
- DuckDB2 files
lancedb1 file
- SQLite1 file ยท py-polars/requirements-dev.txt, line 32
- polars-io
- object_store17 files
- adbc-driver-manager1 file
- adbc-driver-sqlite1 file
- aiosqlite
- pylance
- s3fs
Data access 1
- SQLAlchemy4 files
Sign-in 1
- azure-identity1 file
AI 2
jax2 files
- torch2 files
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