Deep dive into pandas Copy-on-Write mode — part III

Deep Dive into Pandas Copy-on-Write Mode — Part III

Explaining the migration path for Copy-on-Write

Introduction

The introduction of Copy-on-Write (CoW) is a breaking change that will have some impact on existing pandas code. We will investigate how we can adapt our code to avoid errors when CoW will be enabled by default. This is currently planned for the pandas 3.0 release, which is scheduled for April 2024. The first post in this series …

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