Printing to file, how do I do it efficiently?

[Cameron Walsh]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Cameron Walsh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a numpy.array of 89x512x512 uint8's, set up with code like this:
> 
> numpy questions are best asked on the numpy list, not here.

At first I thought it was a generic python question, since it had more
to do with writing array data to file rather than the specific format of
the array data.

> 
>> data=numpy.array([],dtype="uint8")
>> data.resize((89,512,512))
> 
> You might want to look at using numpy.empty() here, instead.
> 

Thanks!

[...]
>> I'm guessing that the slow part is the fact that I am converting the
>> data to character format and writing it one character at a time.  What
>> is a better way of doing this, or where should I look to find a better way?
> 
> data.tostring()
> 

And here I see I was wrong, it was a numpy question.  I assumed the
tostring() method would produce the same output as printing the array to
the screen by just calling "data".  But of course, that would be the job
of the __repr__() method.

It is now ridiculously fast (<1second).  Thank you for your help.

Cameron.