[SciPy-user] Problems with io.read_array

[Fernando Perez]

Travis E. Oliphant wrote:

> I'm sorry for giving the wrong impression.  Perhaps it has just been a 
> bad day.   I don't want to turn away people from giving their opinions. 
>   You make very valid points here.

No problem.  We all have bad days, and what's important here is that we all 
learned a bit about read_array, you found a few bugs, and no hard feelings are 
left.  The atmosphere in this group has always been very friendly, and I feel 
that to be an important asset we have.

> It probably just grated me wrong because it's code that I wrote and it 
> was being criticized as being worthless (you did make the comment that 
> people would just write their own code instead of use this) without any 
> real specifics.   Of course, I know understand that you were just saying 
> that to illustrate your opinion about how a text-reading facility should 
> work and were not attacking.

I sort of suspected it must have been your code, because I can see how I would 
easily take criticism a bit more personally than it's worth.  But don't worry, 
these things happen to all of us.

On the other hand, while it's true that we can't always double check 
_everything_, I admit that it wouldn't have been that much work for me to 
write a two line test.  My apology on not doing so was actually honest 
(although I admit there was a fair bit of sarcasm peppered through my post ;)

So at the end of the day, we all got something good out of this.

Best regards, and let's keep scipy moving forward!

Fernando.