[Numpy-discussion] genfromtxt universal newline support

[Derek Homeier]

On 30.06.2014, at 23:10, Jeff Reback <jeffreback at gmail.com> wrote:

> In pandas 0.14.0, generic whitespace IS parsed via the c-parser, e.g. specifying '\s+' as a separator. Not sure when you were playing last with pandas, but the c-parser has been in place since late 2012. (version 0.8.0)
> 
> http://pandas-docs.github.io/pandas-docs-travis/whatsnew.html#text-parsing-api-changes

Ah, I did not see the '\s' syntax in the documentation and thought ' *' would be the only option.

Thanks,

Derek