[SciPy-user] npfile deprecated?

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:12, Steve Schmerler <elcorto at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Since I'm currently in the need to store and read binary data a lot,
> I choose npfile. Since [1] didn't mention it, I attempted to
> update the doc here. I added scipy.io.npfile, numpy.load, numpy.save
> and numpy.savez.  At work, I still use 0.6.0.  However, I found that in
> the current svn HEAD, the scipy.io.npfile docstring says that it is
> deprecated and I should use ndarray.tofile() and numpy.fromfile()
> instead. But with the latter, I can't control byteorder, row- or
> column-major order etc. That's a bit puzzling.
>
> I admitt that I haven't followed the development of the new numpy file
> format very closely (since npfile worked nicely so far).  So, is the
> .npy/.npz way the current standard to store platform-independent binary
> arrays with all metainfo?

Yup.

-- 
Robert Kern

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