[Numpy-discussion] Using gentxt to import a csv with a string class label and hundreds of integer features

Hi, I am trying to use numpy.gentxt to import a csv for classification using scikit-learn. The first column in the csv is a string type class label while 200+ extra columns are integer features. Please I wish to find out how I can use the gentext function to specify a dtype of string for the first

[Numpy-discussion] ANN: PyTables 3.2.0 (final) released!

=== Announcing PyTables 3.2.0 === We are happy to announce PyTables 3.2.0. *** IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are a user of PyTables, it needs your help to keep going. Please read the next thread as it contains important inf

[Numpy-discussion] ANN: python-blosc 1.2.7 released

= Announcing python-blosc 1.2.7 = What is new? Updated to use c-blosc v1.6.1. Although that this supports AVX2, it is not enabled in python-blosc because we still need a way to devise how to detect AVX2 in the underlying platfo

[Numpy-discussion] Dispatch rules for binary operations on ndarrays

I just wanted to draw the list's attention to a discussion happening on the tracker, about the details of how methods like ndarray.__add__ are implemented, and how this interacts with the new __numpy_ufunc__ method that will make it possible for third party libraries to override arbitrary ufuncs st