[goronbjorn]

They probably left out pandas because it depends on numpy and also this point:

> For many people, installing numpy may be difficult or impossible.

that's as true, and arguably more, for pandas.

[maaku]

Although the solution, imho, is to make numpy easier to install across many platforms (ideally `pip install numpy pandas` should just work).

[dagw]

There are two types of potential limitations to installing software, technical and policy. Just solving the technical won't necessarily make it easier to install numpy/pandas on a users computer from a policy perspective. Being able to rely on basic statistics functions being available in a default python install would be nice.