On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Jerry Hill <malaclyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 Yes - bingo. They are numpy arrays. And that was the hint I needed to go look in the numpy docs. Found numpy.set_printoptions(threshold='nan'), which has indeed allowed me to get all the data into the file. I now see Peter Otten made the same suggestion. Thanks to you both. Bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
