On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Zachary Pincus <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > So, this code will still raise an error for an empty file. > > Personally, I consider that a bug because I would expect to receive > > an empty array. I could understand raising an error for a non-empty > > file that does not contain anything useful. For comparison, Matlab > > returns an empty matrix for loading an emtpy text file. > > > > This has been a long-standing annoyance for me, along with the > > behavior with a single-line data file. > > Agreed... I just wanted to make the patch as identical in behavior to > the old version as possible. Though again, simple shims around loadtxt > (as in my previous examples) can yield the desired behavior easily > enough. > > Fair enough. No need to mix a bugfix with a feature request. Ben Root
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