Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-17 Thread Ryan May
Pierre GM wrote: Ryan, OK, I'll look into that. I won't have time to address it before this next week, however. Option #2 looks like the best. No hurries, I just want to make sure I raise any issues I see while the design is still up for change. In other news, I was considering renaming

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan May
Pierre GM wrote: All, Here's the latest version of genloadtxt, with some recent corrections. With just a couple of tweaking, we end up with some decent speed: it's still slower than np.loadtxt, but only 15% so according to the test at the end of the package. I have one more use issue that

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-16 Thread Pierre GM
Ryan, OK, I'll look into that. I won't have time to address it before this next week, however. Option #2 looks like the best. In other news, I was considering renaming genloadtxt to genfromtxt, and using ndfromtxt, mafromtxt, recfromtxt, recfromcsv for the function names. That way, loadtxt

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Barker
Pierre GM wrote: in the same place in NumPy; and all the SciPy IO code to be in the same place in SciPy. +1 So, no problem w/ importing numpy.ma and numpy.records in numpy.lib.io ? As long as numpy.ma and numpy.records are, and will remain, part of the standard numpy distribution, this is

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-09 Thread Jarrod Millman
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Pierre GM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Here's the latest version of genloadtxt, with some recent corrections. With just a couple of tweaking, we end up with some decent speed: it's still slower than np.loadtxt, but only 15% so according to the test at the end

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-09 Thread Christopher Barker
Jarrod Millman wrote: From the user's perspective, I would like all the NumPy IO code to be in the same place in NumPy; and all the SciPy IO code to be in the same place in SciPy. +1 So I wonder if it would make sense to incorporate AstroAsciiData? Doesn't it overlap a lot with

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-09 Thread Pierre GM
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: Jarrod Millman wrote: From the user's perspective, I would like all the NumPy IO code to be in the same place in NumPy; and all the SciPy IO code to be in the same place in SciPy. +1 So, no problem w/ importing numpy.ma and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-09 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 01:34:29AM -0800, Jarrod Millman wrote: It was decided last year that numpy io should provide simple, generic, core io functionality. While scipy io would provide more domain- or application-specific io code (e.g., Matlab IO, WAV IO, etc.) My vision for scipy io,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-08 Thread Ryan May
Pierre GM wrote: All, Here's the latest version of genloadtxt, with some recent corrections. With just a couple of tweaking, we end up with some decent speed: it's still slower than np.loadtxt, but only 15% so according to the test at the end of the package. And so, now what ? Should I

Re: [Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-06 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:59:25PM -0500, Pierre GM wrote: Here's the latest version of genloadtxt, with some recent corrections. With just a couple of tweaking, we end up with some decent speed: it's still slower than np.loadtxt, but only 15% so according to the test at the end of the

[Numpy-discussion] genloadtxt : last call

2008-12-05 Thread Pierre GM
All, Here's the latest version of genloadtxt, with some recent corrections. With just a couple of tweaking, we end up with some decent speed: it's still slower than np.loadtxt, but only 15% so according to the test at the end of the package. And so, now what ? Should I put the module in