Finding some features of pandas quite awkward and verbose coming from dplyr

I'm trying to use Python/pandas a bit more these days as on my current job we get to choose (whereas previously I was almost exclusively using R). Most of the syntax makes sense and is pretty easy to adjust to, but there are a few things I'm finding very verbose and clunky coming from R / dplyr, so was wondering if I'm missing something that could make my life easier?

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The most obvious one, having to continuously refer …

datascience dplyr features pandas