[Numpy-discussion] String manipulation
Christopher Barker
Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
Tue Jul 21 11:56:08 EDT 2009
Pierre GM wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>> ...
>> Is there a cleaner way to do this?
> Yes. np.lib._iotools.LineSplitter and/or np.genfromtxt
Great, thanks -- though the underscore in _iotools implies that this
isn't supposed to be general purpose tools.
Also, aside from the problem at hand, what I was getting at was whether
there is a cleaner way to go from a string to a numpy array of
characters or strings.
I see that LineSplitter() uses a list comprehension to do the slicing,
and I was looking for a way (perhaps needlessly) to use numpy instead,
which requires an efficient way to get a numpy array from a string.
I don't see why:
np.array('a string', dtype='S1')
results in a length (1,) array, for instance.
Actually, I think I do -- numpy is treating the string as a single
scalar, rather than a sequence of characters, and doing its best to
convert that scaler to a length one string. However, I don't know if
there is a compelling reason why it should do that -- in other contexts,
Python generally treats strings as a sequence of characters.
-Chris
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