On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Richared Beare <
richard.be...@sci.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> I have been unable to find a way of doing a very simple thing: saving
> data that contains both arrays of numerical values and arrays of string
> values, using savetxt in numpy.
>
> As a very simple example, suppose a is a numpy array of integers and b
> is one containing strings, e.g.:
>
> a = np.array([1,2,3])
>
> b = np.array(['one', 'two', 'three'])
>
> The following call to savetxt:
>
> savetxt('test.txt', transpose((a,b)), fmt='%i %s')
>
> produces the following error:
>
> float argument required, not numpy.string_
>
> I don't have any problems if I mix integers and floats in the format
> string, or save all values as strings, but I am completely unable to
> save formatted numerical values and strings in different columns using
> savetxt.
>
> There must be an easy solution!
>
Seemingly savetxt('test.txt', transpose((a,b)), fmt='%s %s') ; replacing
the %i with %s works. However you can't control the output precision while
saving the data into a file.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Richard Beare
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