It seems to be a lot slower than pylab.load for large arrays. Also, it doesn't handle dates.
Vincent On 4/22/07 10:33 AM, "Markus Rosenstihl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whats wrong with scipy.io.read_array? > > Am 19.04.2007 um 15:50 schrieb Lisandro Dalcin: > >> On 4/19/07, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Nick Fotopoulos wrote: >>>> Devs, is there any possibility of moving/copying pylab.load to numpy? >>>> I don't see anything in the source that requires the rest of >>>> matplotlib. Among convenience functions, I think that this function >>>> ranks pretty highly in convenience. >>>> >>> >>> I'm supportive of this. But, it can't be named numpy.load. >>> >> >> I am also +1 on this, but this functionality should be implemented in >> C, I think. I've just tested numpy.fromfile('name.txt', sep=' ') >> against pylab.load('name.txt') for a 35MB text file, the number are: >> >> numpy.fromfile: 2.66 sec. >> pylab.load: 16.64 sec. >> >> >> -- >> Lisandro Dalcín >> --------------- >> Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) >> Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) >> Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) >> PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina >> Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 >> _______________________________________________ >> Numpy-discussion mailing list >> Numpy-discussion@scipy.org >> http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion -- Vincent R. Nijs Assistant Professor of Marketing Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2001 Phone: +1-847-491-4574 Fax: +1-847-491-2498 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: vincentnijs _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion