Hi,
I am struggling with a very basic problem. While reading or writing a data file, some times I need to define the format... normally I can do it as dype = float, or dtype = 'U6' etc. however if there is several columns, like say 20, I do not want to write dype = float, float, float .... 20 times. But I am unable to write it in a format like float*20 or float,20... I found that I can write (float,20), which gives no error. But then the data that I read takes all the entries as 1 column, instead of reading it as 20 separate columns.
If I have confused the question, I am giving an example:
I want to read say a file like this 3 rows and 3 columns:
'cow' 'book' 'top'
'dog' 'pen' 'down'
'lion' 'paper' 'left'
The dtype = 'U4','U4','U4' reads a matrix of 3 rows and 3 columns, where as dype = ('U4',3) reads 3 rows with 1 column in each row.
Any suggestion is very welcome. Thanks in advance.
I am struggling with a very basic problem. While reading or writing a data file, some times I need to define the format... normally I can do it as dype = float, or dtype = 'U6' etc. however if there is several columns, like say 20, I do not want to write dype = float, float, float .... 20 times. But I am unable to write it in a format like float*20 or float,20... I found that I can write (float,20), which gives no error. But then the data that I read takes all the entries as 1 column, instead of reading it as 20 separate columns.
If I have confused the question, I am giving an example:
I want to read say a file like this 3 rows and 3 columns:
'cow' 'book' 'top'
'dog' 'pen' 'down'
'lion' 'paper' 'left'
The dtype = 'U4','U4','U4' reads a matrix of 3 rows and 3 columns, where as dype = ('U4',3) reads 3 rows with 1 column in each row.
Any suggestion is very welcome. Thanks in advance.
