On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <ndar...@mac.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Warren Weckesser < > warren.weckes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or you could just call genfromtxt() once with `max_rows=1` to skip a >> row. (I'm assuming that the first argument to genfromtxt is the open file >> object--or some other iterator--and not the filename.) > > > That's hackish. If I have to resort to something like this, I would just > call next() on the open file object or iterator. > I agree, calling genfromtxt to skip a line is silly. Calling next() makes much more sense. > > Still, the case of dtype=None, name=None is problematic. Suppose I want > genfromtxt() to detect the column names from the 1-st row and data types > from the 3-rd. How would you do that? > > This may sound like a cop out, but at some point, I stop trying to make genfromtxt() handle every possible case, and instead I would write a custom header reader to handle this. Warren > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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