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Re: fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Heli <hemla21@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to read a file in to a 2d numpy array containing many number of lines.
> I was wondering what is the fastest way to do this?
>
> Is even reading the file in to numpy array the best method or there are better approaches?
>

numpy.genfromtxt[1] is a pretty robust function for reading text files.

If you're generating the file from a numpy array already, you should
use arr.save()[2] and numpy.load()[3].

[1]: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.genfromtxt.html
[2]: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.save.html
[3]: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.load.html

Cody

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fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array Heli <hemla21@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 06:45 -0700
  Re: fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 14:00 +0000
  Re: fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 14:29 +0000
  Re: fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array Cody Piersall <cody.piersall@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 09:37 -0500
    Re: fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array Heli <hemla21@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 08:49 -0700
      Re: fastest way to read a text file in to a numpy array Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-06-30 23:02 +0200

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