[Numpy-discussion] deprecate fromstring() for text reading?

[Marten van Kerkwijk]

I think it would be good to keep the usage to read binary data at least. Or
is there a good alternative to `np.fromstring(<bytes>, dtype=...)`?  --
Marten

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> There was just a question about a bug/issue with scipy.fromstring (which
> is numpy.fromstring) when used to read integers from a text file.
>
> https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2015-October/036746.html
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> fromstring() is bugging and inflexible for reading text files -- and it is
> a very, very ugly mess of code. I dug into it a while back, and gave up --
> just to much of a mess!
>
> So we really should completely re-implement it, or deprecate it. I doubt
> anyone is going to do a big refactor, so that means deprecating it.
>
> Also -- if we do want a fast read numbers from text files function (which
> would be nice, actually), it really should get a new name anyway.
>
> (and the hopefully coming new dtype system would make it easier to write
> cleanly)
>
> I'm not sure what deprecating something means, though -- have it raise a
> deprecation warning in the next version?
>
> -CHB
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