On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Jarrod Millman wrote: > >>> From the user's perspective, I would like all the NumPy IO code to >>> be >> in the same place in NumPy; and all the SciPy IO code to be in the >> same place in SciPy. > > +1
So, no problem w/ importing numpy.ma and numpy.records in numpy.lib.io ? > > >> So I >> wonder if it would make sense to incorporate AstroAsciiData? > > Doesn't it overlap a lot with genloadtxt? If so, that's a bit > confusing > to new users. For the little I browsed, do we need it ? We could get the same thing with record arrays... >> 3. What about data source? > >> Should we remove datasource? Start using it more? > > start using it more -- it sounds very handy. Didn't know it was around. I'll adapt genloadtxt to use it. >> Documentation >> --------------------- >> Let me try NumPy; this seems >> pretty good. Now let's see how to load in some of my data....") > > totally key -- I have a colleague that has used Matlab a fair bi tin > past that is starting a new project -- he asked me what to use. I, of > course, suggested python+numpy+scipy. His first question was -- can I > load data in from excel? So that would go in scipy.io ? > > One more comment -- for fast reading of lots of ascii data, fromfile() > needs some help -- I wish I had more time for it -- maybe some day. I'm afraid you'd have to count me out on this one: I don't speak C (yet), and don't foresee learning it soon enough to be of any help... _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
