[Numpy-discussion] fast robus implementation of float()

[Christian K.]

Hi,

I wonder if someone has a good solution for a fast conversion of gridded 
ascii data to ndarray. It should manage ',' as decimal point (on demand) 
and special windows numbers as 1.#INF. Of course, this is easy to wrap 
in a small function but I expect it to be slow when the input size is in 
the Mb range.

Regards, Christian