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Plugins

Polars allows you to extend its functionality with either Expression plugins or IO plugins.

Community plugins

Here is a curated (non-exhaustive) list of community-implemented plugins.

Various

  • polars-xdt Polars plugin with extra datetime-related functionality which isn't quite in-scope for the main library
  • polars-hash Stable non-cryptographic and cryptographic hashing functions for Polars

Data science

  • polars-distance Polars plugin for pairwise distance functions
  • polars-ds Polars extension aiming to simplify common numerical/string data analysis procedures

Geo

  • polars-st Polars ST provides spatial operations on Polars DataFrames, Series and Expressions. Just like Shapely and Geopandas.
  • polars-reverse-geocode Offline reverse geocoder for finding the closest city to a given (latitude, longitude) pair.
  • polars-h3 This is a Polars extension that adds support for the H3 discrete global grid system, so you can index points and geometries to hexagons directly in Polars.

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