[SciPy-Dev] np.savetxt: apply patch in enhancement ticket 1079 to add headers?

[Skipper Seabold]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Stefan <stefan.czesla at hs.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> as a consequence of our discussion, we developed a patch (attached to
> ticket 1079), which implements some of the features discussed here.
> We concentrated on comments and the header. Please have a look at the
> patch. We are looking forward to hearing your opinion and suggestions,
> and whether you see any problems, which could prevent it from entering the
> official release.
>

Link: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1079

One comment.  Maybe you can add in the notes that the comment keyword
can be used to write a header and still preserve compatibility with
loadtxt.  This wasn't obvious to me at first, though maybe that's just
me.

Other than that I think it looks like a good first effort towards
making this a better function and I appreciate the attention here.

Skipper

> We agree with Bruce that the format string should be inferred from the
> data type of the array. Yet, we believe that this point should be
> addressed in a different patch focussing on that topic.
>
> Also we noted that there is no error checking, when an array of dimension
> larger 2 is handed to np.savetxt, which may be implemented easily.
>
> Stefan & Christian
>
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