[Numpy-discussion] fromfile() for reading text (one more time!)

Christopher Barker Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
Sat Jan 23 13:53:55 EST 2010


alan at ajackson.org wrote:
> it doesn't support the reasonable
> (IMHO) behavior of treating quote delimited strings in the input file as a
> single field. 

I'd use the csv module for that.

Which makes me wonder if it might make sense to build some of the numpy 
table-reading stuff on top of it...

-Chris


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