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On 07/26/2014 09:57 AM, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> On 26-7-2014 15:41, Nicholas Cannon wrote:
>> Hey I need some sample data to test out and do stuff with. Also I
>> am having strange errors with idle when i load a .txt file read it
>> and then print it, idle crashes well kind of freezes. Not sure what
>> is wrong here. Also I am having troubles with Numpy and its loadtxt
>> function:
>>
>> ValueError: cannot set an array element with a sequence
>>
>> So all i need is a good site to download some data from and maybe
>> some fixes for these problems.
>>
>
> First hit when googling for 'testdata generator site':
> http://www.generatedata.com/ The search produces various other useful
> looking sites.

Another option, driven by python...

https://github.com/joke2k/faker