On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM, William R. Wing (Bill Wing) <w...@mac.com> wrote: > Much to my surprise, when I looked at the output file, it only contained 160 > characters. Catting produces: > > StraylightPro:Logs wrw$ cat RTT_monitor.dat > 2354[ 734716.72185185 734716.72233796 734716.72445602 ..., 734737.4440162 > 734737.45097222 734737.45766204][ 240. 28.5 73.3 ..., 28.4 27.4 > 26.4]
If that's the full output, then my guess is that x_dates and y_rtt are not actual python lists. I bet they are, in fact, numpy arrays and that the string representation of those arrays (what you're getting from str(x_dates), etc) include the '...' in the middle instead of the full contents. Am I close? -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list