On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Pierre GM <pgmdevlist@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:
The documentation for loadtxt and genfromtxt state that the unpack argument functions as follows:
If True, the returned array is transposed, so that arguments may be unpacked using x, y, z = loadtxt(...).
Provided that all the columns have the same dtype
Aha, I see. Unfortunately that detail is not in the docstrings. This is a pretty fundamental limitation of the function, I think, since it is rare that a multi-column table of data will be of the same type. I wonder if it would be possible to allow an 'obj' type array that could be transposed? The way it is now, you have a 1d array representing what is fundamentally 2d information.