<div dir="ltr">I think it would be good to keep the usage to read binary data at least. Or is there a good alternative to `np.fromstring(<bytes>, dtype=...)`? -- Marten<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Chris Barker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">chris.barker@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>There was just a question about a bug/issue with scipy.fromstring (which is numpy.fromstring) when used to read integers from a text file.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2015-October/036746.html" target="_blank">https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2015-October/036746.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>fromstring() is bugging and inflexible for reading text files -- and it is a very, very ugly mess of code. I dug into it a while back, and gave up -- just to much of a mess!</div><div><br></div><div>So we really should completely re-implement it, or deprecate it. I doubt anyone is going to do a big refactor, so that means deprecating it.</div><div><br></div><div>Also -- if we do want a fast read numbers from text files function (which would be nice, actually), it really should get a new name anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>(and the hopefully coming new dtype system would make it easier to write cleanly)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what deprecating something means, though -- have it raise a deprecation warning in the next version?</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R <a href="tel:%28206%29%20526-6959" value="+12065266959" target="_blank">(206) 526-6959</a> voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE <a href="tel:%28206%29%20526-6329" value="+12065266329" target="_blank">(206) 526-6329</a> fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 <a href="tel:%28206%29%20526-6317" value="+12065266317" target="_blank">(206) 526-6317</a> main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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