Alan G Isaac wrote:
If I know my data is already clean and is handled nicely by the old loadtxt, will I be able to turn off and the special handling in order to retain the old load speed?
what I'd like to see is a version of loadtxt built on a slightly enhanced fromfile() -- that would be blazingly fast for the easy cases (simple tabular data of one dtype). I don't know if the special-casing should be automatic, or just have it be a separate function. Also, fromfile() needs some work, and it needs to be done in C, which is less fun, so who knows when it will get done. As I think about it, maybe what I really want is a simple version of loadtxt written in C: It would only handle one data type at a time. It would support simple comment lines. It would only support one delimiter (plus newline). It would create a 2-d array from normal, tabular data. You could specify: how many numbers you wanted, or how many rows, or read 'till EOF Actually, this is a lot like matlab's fscanf() someday.... -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov