On Sep 1, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Tim Michelsen wrote: > Hello, > I tried to load a ASCII table into a string array. Unfortunately, > this table has > some empty chells > > Here it is: > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/rcsg/cdrom/ismcs/alphanum.html > > After having converted this into a text file I tried this: > > $ np.genfromtxt('alphanum_to-text.txt', dtype=np.str_, delimiter='|', > skiprows=1, missing='') > > But I got an error: > > 1043 dtype = np.dtype(ttype) > 1044 # > -> 1045 output = np.array(data, dtype) > 1046 if usemask: > 1047 if dtype.names: > > ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence > > I sometimes experience this error message with text read in. Could > this message > be made more helpful like telling in which line of the input file > this occurs?
Mmh, perhaps. I'll try to see what I can do. Usually, this message shows up when one of the lines you have read doesn't have the same number of columns as the others. You mentioned that you're skipping one line : try skipping a few more and check. I can't really see what could go wrong in the link you sent. However, you converted it to txt, right ? You're 100% sure that you didn't miss something in the conversion ? Can you post the result (or send a link to?) _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
