On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:57:19 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-09-30, Peter Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:04:18 +0200, Ivan Rebori wrote: >>> >>> 1. Multi dimensional arrays - how do you load them in python For >>> example, if I had: >>> ------- >>> 1 2 3 >>> 4 5 6 >>> 7 8 9 >>> >>> 10 11 12 >>> 13 14 15 >>> 16 17 18 >>> ------- >>> with "i" being the row number, "j" the column number, and "k" the .. >>> uhmm, well, the "group" number, how would you load this ? >>> >>> If fortran90 you would just do: >>> >>> do 10 k=1,2 >>> do 20 i=1,3 >>> >>> read(*,*)(a(i,j,k),j=1,3) >>> >>> 20 continue >>> 10 continue >>> >>> How would the python equivalent go ? > > You would drag yourself out of the 1960s, install numpy, and then do > something like this: > > a = read_array(open("filename.dat","r"))
In [64]: a = numpy.fromfile('test.txt', dtype=int, sep=' ') In [65]: a Out[65]: array([ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]) In [66]: a.reshape(2, 3, 3) Out[66]: array([[[ 1, 2, 3], [ 4, 5, 6], [ 7, 8, 9]], [[10, 11, 12], [13, 14, 15], [16, 17, 18]]]) Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list