[Numpy-discussion] ticket 1562 on loadtxt (was Re: Numpy 2.0 schedule)
Bruce Southey
bsouthey at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 12:45:26 EST 2011
On 02/28/2011 09:47 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com
> <mailto:bsouthey at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 02/28/2011 09:02 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >
> > So, is there still no hope in addressing this old bug report of
> mine?
> >
> > http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1562
> >
> > Ben Root
> >
> I think you need to add more details to this. So do you have an
> example
> of the problem that includes code and expected output?
>
> Perhaps genfromtxt is probably more appropriate than loadtxt for what
> you want:
>
> from StringIO import StringIO
> import numpy as np
> t = StringIO("1,1.3,abcde\n2,2.3,wxyz\n1\n3,3.3,mnop")
> data = np.genfromtxt(t,
> [('myint','i8'),('myfloat','f8'),('mystring','S5')], names =
> ['myint','myfloat','mystring'], delimiter=",", invalid_raise=False)
> print 'Bad data raise\n',data
>
> This gives the output that skips the incomplete 3rd line:
>
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/lib/npyio.py:1507:
> ConversionWarning: Some errors were detected !
> Line #3 (got 1 columns instead of 3)
> warnings.warn(errmsg, ConversionWarning)
> Bad data raise
> [(1, 1.3, 'abcde') (2, 2.3, 'wxyz') (3, 3.3, 'mnop')]
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
> Bruce,
>
> I think you mis-understood the problem I was reporting.
Probably - which is why I asked for more details.
> You can find the discussion thread here:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg26235.html
>
> I have proposed that at the very least, an example of this problem is
> added to the documentation of loadtxt so that users know to be aware
> of this possibility.
I did not connect the ticket to that email thread. Removing the
structured array part of your email, I think essentially the argument is
which should be the output of:
np.loadtxt(StringIO("89.23"))
np.arange(5)[1]
These return an 0-d array and an rather old argument about that (which
may address the other part of the ticket). Really I see this behavior as
standard so you add an example to the documentation to reflect that.
> In addition, loadtxt fails on empty files even when provided with a
> dtype. I believe genfromtxt also fails as well in this case.
>
> Ben Root
>
Errors on empty files probably should be a new bug report as that was
not in the ticket.
Bruce
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