> Without using third party libraries, no not really. numpy has it > covered so there's not really a lot of demand for it. If your users > are loading 1.5 GB arrays into memory, it's probably not unreasonable > to expect them to have numpy installed.
My users are biologists, and I can't expect them to have numpy (and the barrier to entry for this group is particularly high). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list