I don't like NumPy

Hear hear! Some of these complaints have been resolved with numpysane: https://github.com/dkogan/numpysane/ . With numpysane and gnuplotlib, I now find numpy acceptable and use it heavily for everything. But yeah; without these it's unusable.

Thanks for the link, I have also grumbled about these issues, but never thought to look for a workaround library on top of numpy...

Most of numpysane seems to be doing a loop in Python.

It isn’t true vectorization.