On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:44:37PM -0800, Mark Janikas wrote: > I don't think I can do that because I have heterogeneous rows of > data.... I.e. the columns in each row are different in length. > Furthermore, when reading it back in, I want to read only bytes of the > info at a time so I can save memory. In this case, I only want to have > one record in mem at once. > > Another issue has arisen from taking this routine cross-platform.... > namely, if I write the file on Windows I cant read it on Solaris. I > assume the big-little endian is at hand here.
Indeed. You may want to take a look at npfile, the new IO module in scipy written by Matthew Brett (you don't have to install the whole scipy to use it, just grab the file). Cheers Stéfan _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
