On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:26 PM, John Hunter wrote
OK, that worked great. I do think some a default impl in np.rec which returned a recarray would be nice. It might also be nice to have a method like np.rec.fromcsv which defaults to a delimiter=',', names=True and dtype=None. Since csv is one of the most common data interchange format in the world, it would be nice to have some obvious function that works with it with little or no customization required.
Quite agreed. Personally, I'd ditch the default dtype=float in favor of dtype=None, but compatibility is an issue. However, if we all agree on genloadtxt, we can use tailored-made version in different modules, like you suggest.
There's an extra issue for which we have an solution I'm not completely satisfied with: names=True. It might be simpler for basic user not to set names=True, and have the first header recognized as names or not if needed (by processing the first line after the others, and using it as header if it's found to be a list of names, or inserting it back at the beginning otherwise)...