On 26.06.2011, at 8:48PM, Chao YUE wrote:
> I want to read a csv file with many (49) columns, the first column is string
> and remaning can be float.
> how can I avoid type in like
>
> data=numpy.genfromtxt('data.csv',delimiter=';',names=True, dtype=(S10, float,
> float, ......))
>
> Can I just specify the type of first cloumn is tring and the remaing float?
> how can I do that?
Simply use 'dtype=None' to let genfromtxt automatically determine the type (it
is perhaps a bit confusing that this is not the default - maybe it should be
repeated in the docstring for clarity that the default is for dtype is
'float'...).
Also, a shorter way of typing the dtype above (e.g. in case some columns would
be auto-detected as int) would be
['S10'] + [ float for n in range(48) ]
HTH,
Derek
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