Python good for data mining?

[Jens]

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. It depends on the situation of course.