Re: lists vs. NumPy arrays for sets of dates and strings

2014-06-10 Thread Peter Otten
beliav...@aol.com.dmarc.invalid wrote: > I am going to read a multivariate time series from a CSV file that looks > like > > Date,A,B > 2014-01-01,10.0,20.0 > 2014-01-02,10.1,19.9 > ... > > The numerical data I will store in a NumPy array, since they are more > convenient to work with than lists

Re: lists vs. NumPy arrays for sets of dates and strings

2014-06-09 Thread Denis McMahon
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:48:12 -0700, beliavsky wrote: > I am going to read a multivariate time series from a CSV file that looks > like > > Date,A,B 2014-01-01,10.0,20.0 2014-01-02,10.1,19.9 ... > > The numerical data I will store in a NumPy array, since they are more > convenient to work with th

lists vs. NumPy arrays for sets of dates and strings

2014-06-09 Thread beliavsky
I am going to read a multivariate time series from a CSV file that looks like Date,A,B 2014-01-01,10.0,20.0 2014-01-02,10.1,19.9 ... The numerical data I will store in a NumPy array, since they are more convenient to work with than lists of lists. What are the advantages and disadvantages of st