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ECO-CMP-PY-013

Name: Inefficient pandas row iteration

Category: CMP

Family: PY

Primary layer: code

System layers: code

Description

Row-wise pandas iteration is slow compared to vectorized operations.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.8
  • notes: High in analytics/ETL.
  • type: cpu

Detection

  • languages:
  • python
  • method: ast

Remediation

  • guidance: Use vectorized ops or apply carefully; avoid iterrows in hot paths.
  • tradeoffs: Learning curve / refactor time.

Pattern examples

No pattern examples provided.

Remediation examples

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