I noticed that genfromtxt() did not skip comments if the keyword names is
not True. If names is True, then genfromtxt() would take the first line as
the names. I am proposing a fix to genfromtxt that skips all of the
comments in a file, and potentially using the last comment line for names.
This
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Albert Kottke albert.kot...@gmail.comwrote:
I noticed that genfromtxt() did not skip comments if the keyword names is
not True. If names is True, then genfromtxt() would take the first line as
the names. I am proposing a fix to genfromtxt that skips all of the
I agree that last comment line before the first line of data is more
descriptive.
Regarding the location of the names. I thought taking it from the last
comment line before the first line of data made sense because it would
permit reading of just the data with np.loadtxt(), but also permit
Now try the same thing with np.recfromcsv().
I get the following (Python 3.3):
import io
b = io.BytesIO(b!blah\n!blah\n!blah\n!A:B:C\n1:2:3\n4:5:6\n)
np.recfromcsv(b, delimiter=':', comments='!')
...
ValueError: Some errors were detected !
Line #5 (got 3 columns instead of 1)
Line #6
