I don't know why you got downvoted, but I agree that matrix manipulation in numpy look quite foreign to to somebody new to python/numpy. I had heard this "complain" from several colleagues (mostly former matlab-users). Several colleagues have migrated to Julia, which does a quite good job in producing easy readable numerical code. For instance, the dot-product can be written with the Unicode dot symbol (typed as \dot<tab>)
> matrix manipulation in numpy look quite foreign to to somebody new to python/numpy
Not only to newcomers. I've been using python+numpy for more than 10 years, nearly every day, and it despairs me as much as the first day, if not more. I relish the few moments that I get to write numeric algorithms in any other language.
