[Numpy-discussion] Nested recarrays with subarrays and loadtxt: a bug in loadtxt?

[Pierre GM]

On May 27, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Pierre GM <pgmdevlist at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Oh yes indeed. Yet another case of "I-opened-my-mouth-too-soon'...
>>
>> OK, so there's a trick. Kinda:
>> * Define a specific converter:
>>
>
> Thanks, that's an alternative, though I think I prefer my two-pass
> hack, though I can't quite really say why...


Funny, I prefer mine ;)
Seriously: there might be some overhead in your 2-pass method that  
might be inconvenient. Some timing would be needed...