Maybe try genfromtxt instead of loadtxt, it has a skip_footer option. -=- Olivier
2011/10/25 Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisa...@gmail.com> > i'm tring to generate an array reading a txt file from internet. > > my target is to use python instead of matlab, to replace this steps in > matlab : > > url=['http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Correlation/amon.us.long.data']; > urlwrite(url,'file.txt'); > > i'm using this code : > > urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Correlation/amon.us.long.data', > 'file.txt') a = np.loadtxt('file.txt', skiprows=1) > > but it fails becouse of the txt description at the end of the file, > > do you know if exist a way to skip the X lines at the end, > > something like "skipmultiplerows='1,-4'" (to skip the first and the last 4 > rows in the file) > > or i have to use some sort of string manipulation (readlines?) instead ? > > Thanks! > > --Massimo > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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