Talk:Pandas (software)

Lower case pandas at start of sentence

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2013/11/is-it-sometimes-okay-to-begin-a-sentence-with-a-lowercase-letter.html ---

1. If a name that begins with a lowercase letter begins a sentence, then it should be capitalized.
2. Do not begin a sentence with a lowercase statistical term (e.g., t test or p value), a lowercase abbreviation (e.g., lb), or a symbol that stands alone (e.g., α).

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomruen (talk • contribs) 1 August 2017 (UTC)

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I agree with your rewording, thanks. But please read Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Items_that_require_initial_lower_case. To quote (my emphasis):

“ In contexts where the case of symbols is significant, like those related to programming languages, mathematical notation (for example, the mathematical constant e is not equivalent to E), or the names of units of physical quantities or their symbols, the correct case should always be retained, even in situations where normal rules would require capitalization, such as at the beginning of a sentence. ”

The APAstyle reference is interesting, but disagrees with the wikipedia MOS.

Also note to sign your name it is three tildes.

peterl (talk)

— Preceding undated comment added 1 August 2017

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Here "Panda styled as panda" should be used. There is no difference between Panda and panda. 46.39.125.176 (talk) 11:12, 31 December 2021 (UTC) Note: To date your comment use four tildes instead of three.

SQL file format?

Dataframes section talks about "various file formats such as ... SQL". Is there an SQL file format? If the statement refers to the format of files holding SQL statements, then that's just plain text format. If it refers to something else, then that sentence should be rewritten to clarify what that is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.14.9.198 (talk) 07:18, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

I've reworded it, based on function read_sql.[1] peterl (talk) 12:53, 11 December 2021 (UTC)