You can just catch the exception and decide what to do with it:
try:
data = np.loadtxt('foo.txt')
except IOError:
data = 0 # Or something similar
Nadav
-----Original Message-----
From: numpy-discussion-boun...@scipy.org on behalf of Maria Liukis
Sent: Tue 25-May-10 01:14
To: numpy-discussion@scipy.org
Subject: [Numpy-discussion] loadtxt raises an exception on empty file
Hello everybody,
I'm using numpy V1.3.0 and ran into a case when numpy.loadtxt('foo.txt') raised
an exception:
>>>import numpy as np
>>>np.loadtxt('foo.txt')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/lib/io.py",
line 456, in loadtxt
raise IOError('End-of-file reached before encountering data.')
IOError: End-of-file reached before encountering data.
>>>
if provided file 'foo.txt' is empty.
Would anybody happen to know if it's a feature or a bug? I would expect it to
return an empty array.
numpy.fromfile() handles empty text files:
>>> np.fromfile('foo.txt', sep='\t\n ')
array([], dtype=float64)
>>>
Would anybody suggest a graceful way of handling empty files with
numpy.loadtxt() (except for catching an IOError exception)?
Many thanks,
Masha
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liu...@usc.edu
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