[Numpy-discussion] Fwd: np.loadtxt : yet a new implementation...

2008-12-01 Thread Pierre GM
(Sorry about that, I pressed Reply instead of Reply all. Not my day for emails...) On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:54 PM, John Hunter wrote: It looks like I am doing something wrong -- trying to parse a CSV file with dates formatted like '2008-10-14', with:: import datetime, sys import

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Fwd: np.loadtxt : yet a new implementation...

2008-12-01 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Pierre GM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem you have is that the default dtype is 'float' (for backwards compatibility w/ the original np.loadtxt). What you want is to automatically change the dtype according to the content of your file: you should use

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Fwd: np.loadtxt : yet a new implementation...

2008-12-01 Thread Pierre GM
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:26 PM, John Hunter wrote OK, that worked great. I do think some a default impl in np.rec which returned a recarray would be nice. It might also be nice to have a method like np.rec.fromcsv which defaults to a delimiter=',', names=True and dtype=None. Since csv is one