On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Pierre GM wrote: >>> I think that the default invalid_raise should be True. >> >> Mmh, OK, that's a +1/) for invalid_raise=true. Anybody else ? > > yup -- make it +2 -- ignoring erreos and losing data by default is a > "bad idea"!
OK then, that's enough for me: I'll put invalid_raise as True by default. Note that a warning was emitted no matter what. > >>> One 'feature' is that there is no way to indicate multiple >>> delimiters >>> when the delimiter is whitespace. >>> A B C D >>> 1 2 3 4 >>> 1 4 5 > > I'd say someone has made a very poor choice of file formats! > > Unless this s a fixed width file, in which case it should be processes > as such, rather than as a delimited one. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to > add that feature to genfromtxt.. or is it there already. Perhaps > that's > what this means: > >> Have you tried using a sequence of integers for the delimiter ? Yes, if you give a sequence of integers as delimiter, it is interpreted as the length of each field. At least, should be. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
