Thanks, I'm not really trying to create a function. I actually thought this would be as simple as the 'load' command to get the data in from a file. But I just couldn't find the documentation online to do it once i have the data already 'inside' of python as a list. So, my options are:
1) write the data block out to a temporary file and read it in using 'load' - which is really simple (see: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/InputOutput) 2) I've done the following, but I doubt it is the most efficient method: tempDATA=[] for i in data[stind:-1]: #this is the data block from the file tempDATA.append([float(j) for j in i.split()]) outdata=array(tempDATA).transpose() Is there a better way? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/create-numpy-array-from-list-of-strings-tp17634509p17635787.html Sent from the Python - tutor mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
