Gideon Simpson wrote: > So I have some data sets of about 160000 floating point numbers stored > in text files. I find that loadtxt is rather slow. Is this to be > expected? Would it be faster if it were loading binary data?
Depending on the format you may be able to use numpy.fromfile, which I suspect would be much faster. It only handles very simple ascii formats, though. Eric _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion