hi all,
i've been using genfromtxt to parse tab separated files for plotting
purposes in matplotlib. the problem is that genfromtxt seems to give
only two ways to access the contents of the file: one is by column,
where you can use:
d = genfromtxt(...)
and then do d['header_name1'] to access the column named by
'header_name1', d['header_name2'] to access the column named by
'header_name2', etc. Or it will allow you to traverse the file line
by line, and then access each header by number, i.e.
for line in d:
field1 = d[0]
field2 = d[1]
# etc.
the problem is that the second method relies on knowing the order of
the fields rather than just their name, and the first method does not
allow line by line iteration.
ideally what i would like is to be able to traverse each line of the
parsed file, and then refer to each of its fields by header name, so
that if the column order in the file changes my program will be
unaffected:
for line in d:
field1 = ['header_name1']
field2 = ['header_name2']
is there a way to do this using standard matplotlib/numpy/scipy
utilities? i could write my own code to do this but it seems like
something somebody probably already thought of a good representation
for and has implemented a more optimized version than i could write on
my own. does such a thing exist?
thanks very much