[Numpy-discussion] avoid a line...

[Christopher Barker]

On 3/17/11 12:46 AM, eat wrote:
>       I am try to read a file of the following format, I want to avoid
>     the first line and read the remaining as 'float' .
>     Please help me...
>
>
>     Rain    Wind    Temp    Pr    Sal
>     0.1    1.1    0.02    0.2   0.2
>     0.5    0.       0.      0.4   0.8
>     0.5    5.5    1.5    0.5   1.5

It's not as robust, but if performance matters, fromfile() should be faster:

f.readline() # to skip the first line

arr = np.fromfile(f, sep=' ', dtype=np.float64).reshape((-1, 5))

(untested)

-Chris



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