On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > a...@ajackson.org wrote: >> it doesn't support the reasonable >> (IMHO) behavior of treating quote delimited strings in the input file as a >> single field. > > I'd use the csv module for that. > > Which makes me wonder if it might make sense to build some of the numpy > table-reading stuff on top of it... > > -Chris
csv was also my standard module for this, it handles csv dialects and unicode (with some detour), but having automatic conversion in genfromtext is nicer. >>> reader = csv.reader(open(r'C:\Josef\work-oth\testdata.csv','rb'), >>> delimiter=' ') >>> for line in reader: ... print line ... ['Greenmantle', '2.5', '650', '16.083'] ['Carnethy', '6', '2500', '48.35'] ['Craig Dunain', '6', '900', '33.65'] ['Ben Rha', '7.5', '800', '45.6'] ['Ben Lomond', '8', '3070', '62.267'] ['Goatfell', '8', '2866', '73.217'] ['Bens of Jura', '16', '7500', '204.617'] ['Cairnpapple', '6', '800', '36.367'] ['Scolty', '5', '800', '29.75'] ['Traprain', '6', '650', '39.75'] ['Lairig Ghru', '28', '2100', '192.667'] Josef > > > -- > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
