On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 21:09, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:07:04PM -0500, Wes McKinney wrote: >> In this last case for example, around 500 MB of RAM is taken up for an >> array that should only be about 80-90MB. If you're a data scientist >> working in Python, this is _not good_. > > But why, oh why, are people storing big data in CSV?
Because everyone can read it. It's not so much "storage" as "transmission". -- Robert Kern _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
