On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Pierre GM <pgmdevl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, as `skip_header` is a number of lines, I don't really see anything > particular magical about a `skip_header=-1`.
The logic here is: - if names=True, then genfromtext expects the names to be given in the first line, and they may or may not be commented out - BUT, if skip_header=<some special value>, then any all-comment lines will be skipped before looking for names, i.e. the names are not expected to be commented out and comments are given their original meaning again. I have no idea how one could derive this understanding by looking at skip_header=-1. "Ah, that -1 is a number of lines, everyone knows that skipping -1 lines is equivalent to toggling our expectation for whether the column names will appear inside a comment"? The API is pretty convoluted at this point and I'm not convinced we wouldn't be better off with adding a new argument like names_in_comment=False/True, but skip_header="comments" at least gives the reader a fighting chance... -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
