Cool! Thanks Tim. Vincent
On 7/8/07 10:25 PM, "Timothy Hochberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/8/07, Vincent Nijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for looking into this Torgil! I agree that this is a much more >> complicated setup. I'll check if there is anything I can do on the data end. >> Otherwise I'll go with Timothy's suggestion and read in numbers as floats >> and convert to int later as needed. > > Here is a strategy that should allow auto detection without too much in the > way of inefficiency. The basic idea is to convert till you run into a problem, > store that data away, and continue the conversion with a new dtype. At the end > you assemble all the chunks of data you've accumulated into one large array. > It should be reasonably efficient in terms of both memory and speed. > > The implementation is a little rough, but it should get the idea across.
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