[Numpy-discussion] Fastest way to parsing a specific binay file

[Gökhan Sever]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:

> Gökhan Sever skrev:
> > What would be wisest and fastest way to tackle this issue?
> Get the format, read the binary data directly, skip the ascii/regex part.
>
> I sometimes use recarrays with formatted binary data; just constructing
> a dtype and use numpy.fromfile to read. That works when the binary file
> store C structs written successively.
>
> Sturla Molden
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How to use recarrays with variable-length data fields as well as metadata?
Eventually I will record the data with numpy arrays but not sure how to
utilize recarrays in the first stage.

-- 
Gökhan
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