On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Pierre GM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote: >> >>> The documentation for loadtxt and genfromtxt state that the unpack >>> argument functions as follows: >>> >>> If True, the returned array is transposed, so that arguments may be >>> unpacked using x, y, z = loadtxt(...). >> >> Provided that all the columns have the same dtype >> > > Aha, I see. Unfortunately that detail is not in the docstrings. This > is a pretty fundamental limitation of the function, I think, since it > is rare that a multi-column table of data will be of the same type. I > wonder if it would be possible to allow an 'obj' type array that could > be transposed? The way it is now, you have a 1d array representing > what is fundamentally 2d information.
As I stated in a previous email, please open a ticket to that effect. In the meantime, please use the trick I was giving you to unpack the 1D array w/ several fields into a list of 1D arrays (one for each field). _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
