On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Pierre GM <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> >
> > I understand the technicalities of why this occurs, but from a user's
> perspective, he is asking for distinct numpy arrays of specified types.  The
> transposing seems to be almost an unimportant implementation detail because
> the user is asking for the data to be split up by columns.  Personally, I
> think that this should be transparent to the user and should be able to work
> -- although I am not exactly sure if one should just simply return a list of
> numpy arrays with the column names dropped, or a list of one-column record
> arrays.
>
> Well, easy enough to output a list of arrays for each column, be they of
> the same dtype or with different ones.
>
>
> > If it can't quite work from within the framework for genfromtxt/loadtxt,
> then maybe another text loading function that is designed to have the data
> format known a priori would be suitable?
>
> Not needed. The unpack argument is used as the very end of the function
> anyway.
> Anyhow, could you open a ticket to that effect (else I'm quite likely to
> forget about it).
>
> > Note that such a function might also be sufficient in addressing my
> long-standing qualm with loadtxt()'s squeeze behavior for files with only
> one line of data.
>
> Mind opening a second a ticket ?
>
>
Already been open for a little while now:
http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1562

Ben Root
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