Hi Robert On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Robert Cimrman <cimrm...@ntc.zcu.cz> wrote: > It seems to me, that an additional parameter to loadtxt(), say "nrows" or > "numrows", would do the job, so that the function does not try reading the > entire file. Another possibility would be to raise an exception as it > is now, but also to return the data succesfully read so far.
You can always read chunks of the file into StringIO objects, and pass those into loadtxt. I think your request makes sense though, given that a person can already skip lines at the top of the file. Regards Stéfan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
