On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, at 10:31, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > data = np.genfromtxt(files, usecols=(3), dtype=None, skip_header=8, > skip_footer=1, encoding=None) This seems like a good use case for `dask.dataframe.read_csv` [0]. Stéfan [0] https://examples.dask.org/dataframes/01-data-access.html#Read-CSV-files