On 8-Jul-09, at 4:19 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:30:06 -0500, alan kirjoitti: >> Mathematica vs Matlab vs Python >> >> http://www.larssono.com/musings/matmatpy/index.html > > The Python code there is not very idiomatic Numpy code. It's written > for > Numeric, and fancy indexing etc. are not used. > > Seems like the author also left it as an exercise for the reader to > implement the data file parser in Matlab. I doubt it can be easily > done > in 20 lines :)
Yup. It's not even very idiomatic Python. readlines() is probably a bad idea unless your file is trivial length, and even ignoring numpy.loadtxt(), all of this could be considerably simplified with the built-in csv module. David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
