If you are working with CSV data and want a solution with a smaller footprint than pandas, you can try my package, littletable. Can be pip-installed, or just dropped in as a single .py file with your own code, so very portable and suitable for serverless apps.

Reading CSV data is as simple as calling csv_import:

data = """\
1,"A towel,",1.0
42," it says, ",2.0
1337,is about the most ,-1
0,massively useful thing ,123
-2,an interstellar hitchhiker can have.,3"""

import littletable as lt
tbl = lt.Table().csv_import(data, fieldnames="number1,words,number2".split(','))
tbl.present()

Prints:

  Number1   Words                                  Number2  
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
  1         A towel,                               1.0      
  42         it says,                              2.0      
  1337      is about the most                      -1       
  0         massively useful thing                 123      
  -2        an interstellar hitchhiker can have.   3    

(littletable uses the rich module for presenting Tables.)

littletable doesn't automatically try to convert numeric data, so a numeric transform function is needed for the numeric columns.

def get_numeric(s):
    try:
        return int(s)
    except ValueError:
        try:
            return float(s)
        except ValueError:
            return s

tbl = lt.Table().csv_import(
    data,
    fieldnames="number1,words,number2".split(','),
    transforms={}.fromkeys("number1 number2".split(), get_numeric)
)
tbl.present()

This gives:

  Number1   Words                                  Number2  
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
        1   A towel,                                   1.0  
       42    it says,                                  2.0  
     1337   is about the most                           -1  
        0   massively useful thing                     123  
       -2   an interstellar hitchhiker can have.         3  

The numeric columns are right-justified instead of left-justified.

littletable also has other ORM-ish features, such as indexing, joining, pivoting, and full-text search. Here is a table of statistics on the numeric columns:

tbl.stats("number1 number2".split()).present()

  Name       Mean   Min    Max   Variance              Std_Dev   Count   Missing  
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
  number1   275.6    -2   1337   352390.3    593.6247130974249       5         0  
  number2    25.6    -1    123     2966.8   54.468339427597755       5         0  

or transposed:

tbl.stats("number1 number2".split(), by_field=False).present()

  Stat                 Number1              Number2 
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
  mean                   275.6                 25.6
  min                       -2                   -1
  max                     1337                  123
  variance            352390.3               2966.8
  std_dev    593.6247130974249   54.468339427597755
  count                      5                    5
  missing                    0                    0

Other formats can be output too, such as Markdown:

print(tbl.stats("number1 number2".split(), by_field=False).as_markdown())

| stat | number1 | number2 |
|---|---:|---:|
| mean | 275.6 | 25.6 |
| min | -2 | -1 |
| max | 1337 | 123 |
| variance | 352390.3 | 2966.8 |
| std_dev | 593.6247130974249 | 54.468339427597755 |
| count | 5 | 5 |
| missing | 0 | 0 |

Which would render from Markdown as

Lastly, here is a text search on the words for any entry with the word "hitchhiker":

tbl.create_search_index("words")
for match in tbl.search.words("hitchhiker"):
    print(match)

Prints:

   namespace(number1=-2, words='an interstellar hitchhiker can have.', number2=3)