There was just a question about a bug/issue with scipy.fromstring (which is numpy.fromstring) when used to read integers from a text file.
https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2015-October/036746.html fromstring() is bugging and inflexible for reading text files -- and it is a very, very ugly mess of code. I dug into it a while back, and gave up -- just to much of a mess! So we really should completely re-implement it, or deprecate it. I doubt anyone is going to do a big refactor, so that means deprecating it. Also -- if we do want a fast read numbers from text files function (which would be nice, actually), it really should get a new name anyway. (and the hopefully coming new dtype system would make it easier to write cleanly) I'm not sure what deprecating something means, though -- have it raise a deprecation warning in the next version? -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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