[Numpy-discussion] How to import input data to make ndarray for batch processing?

[Christopher Barker]

On 11/18/10 7:40 AM, Dave Hirschfeld wrote:
> In [7]: data = np.loadtxt('dummy_data.txt')

or, faster:

data = np.fromfile('dummy_data.txt', dtype=np.float64, sep = ' ')

fromfile() is not very flexible, and doesn't have good error handling, 
but it's a lot faster than loadtxt for the simple cases like this.


-Chris

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