I think it would be good to keep the usage to read binary data at least. Or is there a good alternative to `np.fromstring(<bytes>, dtype=...)`? -- Marten
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > There was just a question about a bug/issue with scipy.fromstring (which > is numpy.fromstring) when used to read integers from a text file. > > https://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2015-October/036746.html > > fromstring() is bugging and inflexible for reading text files -- and it is > a very, very ugly mess of code. I dug into it a while back, and gave up -- > just to much of a mess! > > So we really should completely re-implement it, or deprecate it. I doubt > anyone is going to do a big refactor, so that means deprecating it. > > Also -- if we do want a fast read numbers from text files function (which > would be nice, actually), it really should get a new name anyway. > > (and the hopefully coming new dtype system would make it easier to write > cleanly) > > I'm not sure what deprecating something means, though -- have it raise a > deprecation warning in the next version? > > -CHB > > > > > > -- > > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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