[Numpy-discussion] genfromtxt converter question

[gary ruben]

Thanks Olivier,
Your suggestion gets me a little closer to what I want, but doesn't
quite work. Replacing the conversion with

c = lambda x:np.cast[np.complex64](complex(*eval(x)))
b = np.genfromtxt(a,converters={0:c, 1:c, 2:c,
3:c},dtype=None,delimiter=18,usecols=range(4))

produces

[[(-3.97000002861-5.03999996185j) (-1.1318000555-2.56929993629j)
 (-4.60270023346-0.142599999905j) (-1.42490005493+1.73300004005j)]
 [(-5.4797000885+0j) (1.85850000381-1.5501999855j)
 (4.41450023651-0.763800024986j) (-0.480500012636-1.19760000706j)]
 [0j (6.26730012894+0j) (-0.45039999485-0.0289999991655j)
 (-1.34669995308+1.65789997578j)]
 [0j 0j (-3.5+0j) (2.56189990044-3.37080001831j)]]

which is not yet an array of complex numbers. It seems close to the
solution though.

Gary

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Olivier Delalleau <shish at keba.be> wrote:
> If I understand correctly, your error is that you convert only the second
> column, because your converters dictionary contains a single key (1).
> If you have it contain keys from 0 to 3 associated to the same function, it
> should work.
>
> -=- Olivier
>
> 2011/6/17 gary ruben <gruben at bigpond.net.au>
>>
>> I'm trying to read a file containing data formatted as in the
>> following example using genfromtxt and I'm doing something wrong. It
>> almost works. Can someone point out my error, or suggest a simpler
>> solution to the ugly converter function? I thought I'd leave in the
>> commented-out line for future reference, which I thought was a neat
>> way to get genfromtxt to show what it is trying to pass to the
>> converter.
>>
>> import numpy as np
>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>
>> a = StringIO('''\
>>  (-3.9700,-5.0400) (-1.1318,-2.5693) (-4.6027,-0.1426) (-1.4249, 1.7330)
>>  (-5.4797, 0.0000) ( 1.8585,-1.5502) ( 4.4145,-0.7638) (-0.4805,-1.1976)
>>  ( 0.0000, 0.0000) ( 6.2673, 0.0000) (-0.4504,-0.0290) (-1.3467, 1.6579)
>>  ( 0.0000, 0.0000) ( 0.0000, 0.0000) (-3.5000, 0.0000) ( 2.5619,-3.3708)
>> ''')
>>
>> #~ b = np.genfromtxt(a,converters={1:lambda
>> x:str(x)},dtype=object,delimiter=18)
>> b = np.genfromtxt(a,converters={1:lambda
>> x:complex(*eval(x))},dtype=None,delimiter=18,usecols=range(4))
>>
>> print b
>>
>> --
>>
>> This produces
>> [ (' (-3.9700,-5.0400)', (-1.1318-2.5693j), ' (-4.6027,-0.1426)', '
>> (-1.4249, 1.7330)')
>>  (' (-5.4797, 0.0000)', (1.8585-1.5502j), ' ( 4.4145,-0.7638)', '
>> (-0.4805,-1.1976)')
>>  (' ( 0.0000, 0.0000)', (6.2673+0j), ' (-0.4504,-0.0290)', ' (-1.3467,
>> 1.6579)')
>>  (' ( 0.0000, 0.0000)', 0j, ' (-3.5000, 0.0000)', ' ( 2.5619,-3.3708)')]
>>
>> which I just need to unpack into a 4x4 array, but I get an error if I
>> try to apply a different view.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Gary
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