[Numpy-discussion] genfromtxt behaviour

2010-10-29 Thread Matt Studley
>> How can I do my nice 2d slicing on the latter? >> >> array([('a', 2, 3), ('b', 5, 6), ('c', 8, 9)], >> dtype=[('f0', '|S1'), ('f1', 'Select a column by its name: >yourarray['f0'] Super! So I would need to get the dtype object... myData[ myData.dtype.names[0] ] in order to index by col

[Numpy-discussion] genfromtxt behaviour

2010-10-29 Thread Matt Studley
Hi all first, please forgive me for my ignorance - I am taking my first stumbling steps with numpy and scipy. I am having some difficulty with the behaviour of genfromtxt. s = SIO.StringIO("""1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9""") g= genfromtxt(s, delimiter=', ', dtype=None) print g[:,0] This produces th