[Tutor] Reading CSV files in Pandas

[John Steedman]

I have in front of me a copy an (unread, borrowed) copy of "Python for
Data Analysis".  Well, on page 104, there is the start of an answer.

Pandas : has two useful functions: read_csv and read_table
Numpy : see np.loadtxt and np.genfromtxt

There is an example for using the first numpy function:

arr = np.loadtxt ( fileName, delimiter = ','  )

This information from Python for Data Analysis , author: Wes McKinney
published by O'Reilly - a succinct, useful-looking book.





On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 20/10/13 11:30, Matthew Ngaha wrote:
>>
>> Does pandas do the same thing numpy does?
>
>
> Pandas is more about analysis of big data volumes rather than complex
> calculations. eg statistical analysis and data mining.
>
> As such it's closer to R than to numpy in its function, so far as I can
> tell. (Although it uses numpy under the covers).
>
>
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