fromfile error on windows, not mac

jadamwil jadamwilson2 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 22:06:50 EDT 2008


On Jul 22, 8:35 am, jadamwil <jadamwils... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 22, 2:05 am, Uwe Schmitt <rocksportroc... at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > jadamwil schrieb:
>
> > > Hello,
> > > I am using the numpy fromfile function to read binary data from a file
> > > on disk. The problem is that the program runs fine on a Mac, but gives
> > > an error or warning onwindowswhen trying to read the data. I use it
> > > like this:
>
> > > Signal = zeros((N, 16), dtype=float32)
> > > for sample in range(0, N):
> > >   # this function gets the next position in the file to seek to
> > >   s = getFilePos(sample)
>
> > >   # go to the correct location in the file; this IS checked to make
> > > sure it is within the file
> > >   mFile.seek(s)
>
> > >   # read the 16 float32 values from the file
> > >   D = fromfile(mFile, dtype=numpy.float32, 16)
>
> > >   # save D in Signal
> > >   Signal[sample, :] = D
>
> > > This will fail when sample is ~4. If I change the range to (5,N),
> > > skipping the "bad" file location, it will run fine for a few samples,
> > > and then give another error. The message it gives is:
> > > "16 items requested but only 7 read"
>
> > > So D is a 7x1 vector, and the program dies when it tries to assign D
> > > to the slice of Signal ("ValueError: shape mismatch: objects cannot be
> > > broadcast to a single shape").
>
> > > Onwindows, the Python version is 2.5.2, and the most recent numpy and
> > > scipy are being used as well. I tried using Enthought, but it gave
> > > this error as well, in addition to a c runtime error whenever I
> > > imported scipy (which is another post topic...).
>
> > > Any ideas on what might be causing this? Is there a way to debug the
> > > fromfile function? And, remember, this works perfectly on a Mac. Would
> > > compiling everything (python, scipy, numpy) potentially solve this?
>
> > Did you open the file in binary mode ?
>
> > Greetings, Uwe
>
> Yes I did. Would that make a difference between a mac andwindows?
> Thanks

Uwe,
Thanks for the suggestion. I passed "rb" to the open file command, not
'rb' which made a difference. I thought it opened in binary, but it
did not, and it seems windows is not as good unix for dealing with
this situation.
Adam



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