On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Derek Homeier <de...@astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de> wrote: > Does it make sense to keep maintaing both functions at all? IIRC the idea that > loadtxt would be the faster version of the two has been discarded long ago, > thus it seems there is very little, if anything, loadtxt can do that cannot > be done > just as well by genfromtxt. Main compatibility issue is probably different > default > behaviour and interface of the two, but perhaps that might be best solved by > replacing loadtxt with another genfromtxt wrapper? > A real need, which had also been discussed at length, is a truly performant > text IO > function (i.e. one using a compiled ASCII number parser, and optimally also a > more > memory-efficient one), but unfortunately all people interested in > implementing this > seem to have drifted away (not excluding myself from this)…
It's possible we could steal some code from Pandas for this. IIRC they have C/Cython text parsing routines. (It's also an interesting question whether they've fixed the unicode/binary issues, might be worth checking before rewriting from scratch...) -- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
