[Numpy-discussion] np.loadtxt : yet a new implementation...

[Christopher Barker]

Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
>> important to you, why are you using ascii I/O?

ascii I/O is slow, so that's a reason in itself to want it not to be slower!

> More "I" than "O"!  But I think numpy.fromfile, once fixed up, could
> fill this niche nicely.

I agree -- for the simple cases, fromfile() could work very well -- 
perhaps it could even be used to speed up some special cases of loadtxt.

But is anyone working on fromfile()?

By the way, I think overloading fromfile() for text files is a bit 
misleading for users -- I propose we have a fromtextfile() or something 
instead.

-Chris


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