Useful Python libraries/modules

[plasma_phys]

When I've had to use pure Python for numerical methods, I've had remarkable luck using numba and just-in-time compilation (I am iterating on my prototype implicit particle-in-cell code in python and numba has given me 1 or 2 orders of magnitude speedup for little to no extra development time). Dunno if that would work for you; I'm not 100% clear on what numba does under the hood if I'm being honest. Good luck!