[Numpy-discussion] variable number of columns in loadtxt/genfromtxt

Hi, I commonly have to deal with legacy ASCII files, which don't have a constant number of columns. The standard is 10 values per row, but sometimes, there are less columns. loadtxt doesn't support this, and in genfromtext, the rows which have less than 10 values are excluded from the resulting array. Is there any way around this? Thanks for your insight, Andreas.