I make heavy use of Numeric in my sprite engine.When I did the following, I was able to 'drop in' numpy as a replacement, but it took 3x longer to load my complex graphics! :-O
try: import numpy as Numeric Numeric.Int = Numeric.int Numeric.Float = Numeric.float Numeric.UInt8 = Numeric.unsignedinteger except ImportError: import NumericI'm leaving numpy in as a fallback import only, now, because of the speed hit.