anks, sorry for all the emails.
Dave
On 9/23/09, Dave Wood wrote:
>
> Appologies for the multiple posts, people. My posting to the forum was
> pending for a long time, so I deleted it and tried emailing directly. I
> didn't think they'd all be sent out.
> Gokan, thank
the information. To fix my problem, I tried taking out the row
names (leaving only numerical information), and converting the 2D list to
floats. I still had the same problem.
On 9/23/09, Christopher Barker wrote:
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> Dave Wood wrote:
> > Well, I suppose they are all considered to be strin
"If the text file has 'numbers and strings' how is numpy meant to know
what dtype to use?
Please try genfromtxt especially if columns contain both numbers and
strings."
Well, I suppose they are all considered to be strings here. I haven't tried
to convert the numbers to floats yet.
"What happens
Hi all,
I've got a fairly large (but not huge, 58mb) tab seperated text file, with
approximately 200 columns and 56k rows of numbers and strings.
Here's a snippet of my code to create a numpy matrix from the data file...
data = map(lambda x : x.strip().split('\t'), sys.stdin.readlines())
d
