[AstroPy] ascii.read() OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long

[Eduardo Bañados Torres]

I would like to thank Johannes Sahlmann who pointed me out the solution
(off-list I think)

For completeness, this solves the problem:

from astropy.io import ascii
from StringIO import StringIO

d = StringIO("obj_id x y \n4905757000345846002 21 72\n4905757000345846003
35 58")
converter = {'obj_id':[ascii.convert_numpy(np.int64)]}
c = ascii.read(d, converters=converter)
print c

Thanks again,


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Eduardo Bañados Torres <eebanado at uc.cl>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am reading a text file with many columns. The first one is the obj_id
> which is a long integer. When I try to open the file with ascii.read() I
> get
> OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long
>
> while doing the same with numpy.loadtxt I don't get the error but the
> integer is converted to a float (which would be fine with me)
>
> Does anyone know how can I workaround this in astropy? I would like to
> work with astropy
>
> Thanks!
>
> Here is a minimal self-content example:
>
> -----------------------------
> from astropy.io import ascii
> from StringIO import StringIO
>
> d = StringIO("obj_id x y \n4905757000345846002 21 72\n4905757000345846003
> 35 58")
> #In the following line I get the error
> c = ascii.read(d)
>
> #now using numpy
> import numpy as np
> cn = np.loadtxt(d, skiprows=1)
> print cn.T[0]
> #check
> print cn.T[0][0] == 4905757000345846002
> #True
> ---------------------------------------------
> --
> Eduardo Bañados
>



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