Why did you feel that you needed to start using Python in the first place? Do you have prior programming experience? Regarding data munging, that's sometimes

Why did you feel that you needed to start using Python in the first place? Do you have prior programming experience? Regarding data munging, that's sometimes a significant part of the CV/IP process. Personally, I love Python. It's been working fairly well for our ML projects utilizing scikit-learn to process fairly large spatiotemporal datasets (temporally varying 2D and 3D datasets). I find numpy to be critical for keeping runtimes reasonable. Regardless of the language, profiling may be necessary in order to obtain acceptable performance.