Dave Beazley has a great talk about using Python built ins [0] for data analysis and other quick operations.

As a meta note, I've used many of these builtins over the years but, due to LLMs, have been using them less and less. Re-watching the video almost felt like watching bushcrafters make a chair using just a knife and saw...

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyDLAutA88s