On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Robert C. <ricit...@mac.com> wrote: > > I am trying to read a large amount of data that is output in scientific > notation using D instead of E. After searching around I found a thread that > implied numpy already has the capability to do this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959210/python-scientific-notation-using-d-instead-of-e > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1959210/python-scientific-notation-using-d-instead-of-e > > However, this does not work for me. I get: > >>>> numpy.float('1.23D+04') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 1.23D+04 > > Was this capability lost in more recent versions of numpy? > > I would rather not have to do a search and replace every time I read in > data.
>>> np.float('1.5698D+03') 1569.8 >>> np.float('1.23D+04') 12300.0 it's still working with numpy 1.4.0 Josef > > Thanks. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Reading-scientific-notation-using-D-instead-of-E-tp27565041p27565041.html > Sent from the Numpy-discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion