On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Pierre GM <pgmdevl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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!
No, just seeing what sort of problems I can create. This case is partly based on if someone is using tab-delimited then they need to set the delimiter='\t' otherwise it gives an error. Also I often parse text files so, yes, you have to be careful of the delimiters. It is also arises because certain programs like spreadsheets there is the option to merge delimiters - actually in SAS it is default (you need to specify the DSD option). >> >> 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. More to learn and test. Anyhow, I am really impressed on how this function works. Bruce _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
