On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:00:31 -0600, Jeremy Conlin wrote: >> I would like to use numpy's memmap on some data files I have. The first >> 12 or so lines of the files contain text (header information) and the >> remainder has the numerical data. Is there a way I can tell memmap to >> skip a specified number of lines instead of a number of bytes? > > First use standard Python I/O functions to determine the number of > bytes to skip at the beginning and the number of data items. Then pass > in `offset` and `shape` parameters to numpy.memmap.
Thanks for that suggestion. However, I'm unfamiliar with the I/O functions you are referring to. Can you point me to do the documentation? Thanks again, Jeremy _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
