On May 31, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Derek Homeier wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> On 31 May 2011, at 13:56, cgraves wrote:
> 
>> I've downloaded the latest numpy (1.6.0) and loadtxt has the ndmin  
>> option,
>> however neither genfromtxt nor recfromtxt, which use loadtxt, have it.
>> Should they have inherited the option? Who can make it happen?
> 
> you are mistaken, genfromtxt is not using loadtxt (and could not  
> possibly, since it has the more complex parser to handle missing  
> data); thus ndmin could not be inherited automatically.
> It certainly would make sense to provide the same functionality for  
> genfromtxt (which should then be inherited by [nd,ma,rec]fromtxt), so  
> I'd go ahead and file a feature (enhancement) request. I can't promise  
> I can take care of it myself, as I am less familiar with genfromtxt,  
> but I'd certainly have a look at it.

Oh, that shouldn't be too difficult: 'ndmin' tells whether the array must be 
squeezed before being returned, right ? You can add some test at the very end 
of genfromtxt to check what to do with the output (whether to squeeze it or 
not, whether to transpose it or not)... If you don't mind doing it, I'd be 
quite grateful (I don't have time to work on numpy these days, much to my 
regret). Don't forget to change the user manual as well...
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