On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Skipper Seabold wrote: > > In keeping with the making some work for you theme, I filed an > enhancement ticket for one change that we discussed and another IMO > useful addition. http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1238 > > I think it would be nice if we could do > > data = np.genfromtxt(SomeFile, dtype=float, names = ['var1', 'var2', > 'var3' ...]) > > So that float is paired with each variable name. Also, the one that > came up earlier of > > data = np.genfromtxt(SomeFile, dtype=(int, int, float), names = > ['var1','var2','var3'] > > I'm not completely convinced on this one though, since dtype = > "i8,i8,f8" works. I don't want know how much confusion it would add > to have the dtype argument accept a non-valid dtype construction.
Actually, it's rather straightforward. I already have something that supports dtype=(int,int,float) (far easier to handle than "i4,i4,f8"), I need to tweak a couple of things when the names don't match before posting. Pairing the names with the dtype is pretty neat, that would be quite easy to implement > PS. Is it bad form for me to go ahead and assign these kinds of > tickets to you if you're going to be working on them, or do you get > pinged when any ticket is filed? Go for it. I'm only notified when a ticket is assigned to me directly. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
