Python good for data mining?

[Robert Kern]

Jens wrote:
> On 5 Nov., 16:29, Maarten <maarten.sn... at knmi.nl> wrote:
>> On Nov 5, 1:51 pm, Jens <j3n... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil", to quote a famous
>> person. And he's right, as most people working larger codes will
>> confirm.
> 
> I guess I'll have to agree with that. Still, I would like to get some
> kind of indication of if it's a good idea to use NumPy from the start
> of the project - for example.

Yes.

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Robert Kern

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