[Tutor] reading a string into an array

[Bryan Fodness]

I am trying to read a long string of values separated by a backslash into an
array of known size.

Here is my attempt,

from numpy import *
ay, ax = 384, 512
a = zeros([ay, ax])
for line in open('out.out'):
    data = line.split('\\')
k = 0
for i in range(ay):
    for j in range(ax):
        a[i, j] = data[k]
        k+=1
but, I receive the following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/bryan/Desktop/dose_array.py", line 13, in <module>
    a[i, j] = data[k]
ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.




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