[Numpy-discussion] function name as parameter

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Kirk Gamble
I'm trying to write an implementation of the amoeba function from numerical recipes and need to be able to pass a function name and parameter list to be called from within the amoeba function. Simply passing the name as a string doesn't work since python doesn't know it is a function and throws a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] function name as parameter

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Kirk Gamble
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:46 -0400, Zachary Pincus wrote: I'm trying to write an implementation of the amoeba function from numerical recipes and need to be able to pass a function name and parameter list to be called from within the amoeba function. Simply passing the name as a string

Re: [Numpy-discussion] function name as parameter

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas Kirk Gamble
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 13:18 -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: On 10/20/2010 9:42 AM, Thomas Kirk Gamble wrote: I'm trying to write an implementation of the amoeba function from numerical recipes and need to be able to pass a function name and parameter list to be called from within the amoeba

[Numpy-discussion] convert FORTRAN exponential format text to float

2010-09-29 Thread Thomas Kirk Gamble
I need to convert numbers read from a text file to floating point. The numbers are in the format 1.538D-06 (written by a FORTRAN application) and have varying amounts of whitespace between them from line to line. The function fromstring() deals with the whitespace just fine but 'dtype=float'

Re: [Numpy-discussion] convert FORTRAN exponential format text to float

2010-09-29 Thread Thomas Kirk Gamble
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 16:36 +0200, David Froger wrote: Did you try loadtxt? I try to output something in the format 1.538D-06 with Fortran in order to test reading it with loadtxt, but I always get 1.538E-06. Where does the 'D' come from? No, I didn't, but I will. Preserving the 'D' isn't