HEP is a somewhat peculiar community. They tend to rely on their own tools, their own libraries. I wouldn't take them as a model to understand historical python

HEP is a somewhat peculiar community. They tend to rely on their own tools, their own libraries. I wouldn't take them as a model to understand historical python adoption in science. I'd bet that their python usage is still mostly as a REPL to ROOT (which by the way has its own REPL), so no numpy, maybe little pandas, no matplotlib.