Re: [Numpy-discussion] skip lines at the end of file with loadtxt

2011-10-28 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Massimo Di Stefano wrote: > urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Correlation/amon.us.long.data', > 'file.txt') a = np.loadtxt('file.txt', skiprows=1) > > but it fails becouse of the txt description at the end of the file, It's always hard to stop reading b

Re: [Numpy-discussion] skip lines at the end of file with loadtxt

2011-10-25 Thread Massimo Di Stefano
Many thanks Oliver! i missed it in the description, works great :-) --Massimo. Il giorno 25/ott/2011, alle ore 15.33, Olivier Delalleau ha scritto: > Maybe try genfromtxt instead of loadtxt, it has a skip_footer option. > > -=- Olivier > > 2011/10/25 Massimo Di Stefano > i'm tring to genera

Re: [Numpy-discussion] skip lines at the end of file with loadtxt

2011-10-25 Thread Olivier Delalleau
Maybe try genfromtxt instead of loadtxt, it has a skip_footer option. -=- Olivier 2011/10/25 Massimo Di Stefano > i'm tring to generate an array reading a txt file from internet. > > my target is to use python instead of matlab, to replace this steps in > matlab : > > url=['http://www.cdc.noaa.

[Numpy-discussion] skip lines at the end of file with loadtxt

2011-10-25 Thread Massimo Di Stefano
i'm tring to generate an array reading a txt file from internet. my target is to use python instead of matlab, to replace this steps in matlab : url=['http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/Correlation/amon.us.long.data']; urlwrite(url,'file.txt'); i'm using this code : urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.cdc.noaa