David Huard wrote: > The advantage of using regular expressions is that in this case it gives > you some flexibility that wasn't there before. For instance, if for any > reason there are two type of characters that coexist in the file to mark > comments, using
> pattern = re.compile(comments) > can take care of that automatically if comments is a regular expression. OK -- but loadtxt() doesn't support that now anyway. I'm not writing the code, nor using it at the moment, so It's fine with me either way, but the re should certainly support the examples I gave that don't work now. (plus probably others, that's not a comprehensive list of possibilities.) -CHB > 2008/2/27, Christopher Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > This pattern fails if the last character of the line is a comment > character, and if it is a comment only line -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
