Python arrays and sting formatting options

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:57:19 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2008-09-30, Peter Pearson <ppearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:04:18 +0200, Ivan Rebori wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. Multi dimensional arrays - how do you load them in python For
>>> example, if I had:
>>> -------
>>> 1 2 3
>>> 4 5 6
>>> 7 8 9
>>>
>>> 10 11 12
>>> 13 14 15
>>> 16 17 18
>>> -------
>>> with "i" being the row number, "j" the column number, and "k" the ..
>>> uhmm, well, the "group" number, how would you load this ?
>>>
>>> If fortran90 you would just do:
>>>
>>> do 10 k=1,2
>>> do 20 i=1,3
>>>
>>> read(*,*)(a(i,j,k),j=1,3)
>>>
>>> 20 continue
>>> 10 continue
>>>
>>> How would the python equivalent go ?
> 
> You would drag yourself out of the 1960s, install numpy, and then do
> something like this:
> 
>    a = read_array(open("filename.dat","r"))

In [64]: a = numpy.fromfile('test.txt', dtype=int, sep=' ')

In [65]: a
Out[65]:
array([ 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
       18])

In [66]: a.reshape(2, 3, 3)
Out[66]:
array([[[ 1,  2,  3],
        [ 4,  5,  6],
        [ 7,  8,  9]],

       [[10, 11, 12],
        [13, 14, 15],
        [16, 17, 18]]])

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch