It's true, however NumPy, Pandas, and SciPy are external libraries. I think it's a slight disadvantage. In R all these fancy data structures are built into the

It's true, however NumPy, Pandas, and SciPy are external libraries. I think it's a slight disadvantage. In R all these fancy data structures are built into the language and are used everywhere in a natural way. Whereas Numpy feels a little bit like an appendage or like a language inside a language. That said I don't dislike Python/Numpy and I think it definitely has its uses.