Reading Fortran Data

[Robert Kern]

Tyler wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> After trying to find an open source alternative to Matlab (or IDL), I
> am currently getting acquainted with Python and, in particular SciPy,
> NumPy, and Matplotlib. While I await the delivery of Travis Oliphant's
> NumPy manual, I have a quick question (hopefully) regarding how to read
> in Fortran written data.
> 
> The data files are not binary, but ASCII text files with no formatting
> and mixed data types (strings, integers, floats). For example, I have
> the following write statements in my Fortran code:

Konrad Hinsen has a module for reading this kind of file.

  http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/ScientificPython/

Specifically, Scientific.IO.FortranFormat .

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco