I can certainly see the advantage of switching over to None. It makes a lot of sense. One thing that concerns me, though is a file full of whole number values. Would that get interpreted as integers? If so, then that affect needs to be aligned with some other proposed changes with respect to operations with integers such as "**". We might have some unintended consequences if we are not careful. Cheers! Ben Root On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com

wrote:

This is apropos issue #1860 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/1860>, where it is proposed that the default dtype of genfromtxt should be None rather than float. A decision is needed.

Thoughts?

Chuck

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