On 25/06/16 08:04, Ek Esawi wrote: > genfromtxt or (2) looping through each line in the file and split, strip, > and assign data type to each entry. > > I am wondering if there is a better and more efficient alternative, > especially to method 2 without using numpy or pandas.
The csv module will be more reliable and probably faster than using looping with split/strip. You will still need to do the data conversions from strings to native data however. Depending how you currently do that it may be possible to improve that process using a mapping to function (similar to what genfromtext does). > Alan Gauld mentioned namedtuples for another question. I read a little > about collections and in particular namedtuples > but was not sure how to apply theme here, if they > are applicable to begin with. named tuples provide an alternative to dictionaries for read-only data and are more readable than standard tuples, but whether they have a role to play in this particular case is not clear, we'd need to know a lot more about how you plan to access the data once its converted. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
