On Oct 6, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Bruce Southey wrote: > 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).
Ahah! I get it. Well, I remmbr that we discussed something like that a few months ago when I started working on np.genfromtxt, and the default of *not* merging whitespaces was requested. I gonna check whether we can't put this option somewhere now... > Anyhow, I am really impressed on how this function works. Thx. I hope things haven't been slowed down too much. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
