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Claus Führer is a professor of scientific computations at Lund University, Sweden. He has an extensive teaching record that includes intensive programming courses in numerical analysis and engineering mathematics across various levels in many different countries and teaching environments. Claus also develops numerical software in research collaboration with industry and received Lund University's Faculty of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2016.
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NumPy methods


NumPy has built-in methods for reading and writing NumPy array data to text files. These are numpy.loadtxt and numpy.savetxt.

savetxt

Writing an array to a text file is simple:

savetxt(filename,data)

There are two useful parameters given as strings, fmt and delimiter, which control the format and the delimiter between columns. The defaults are space for the delimiter and %.18e for the format, which corresponds to the exponential format with all digits. The formatting parameters are used as follows:

x = range(100) # 100 integers
savetxt('test.txt',x,delimiter=',')   # use comma instead of space
savetxt('test.txt',x,fmt='%d') # integer format instead of float with e

 loadtxt

Reading to an array from a text file is done with the help of the following syntax:

filename = 'test.txt'
data = loadtxt(filename)

Due to the fact that each row in an array must have the same length, each row in the text file must have the same number of elements. Similar to savetxt, the default values...

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Claus Führer is a professor of scientific computations at Lund University, Sweden. He has an extensive teaching record that includes intensive programming courses in numerical analysis and engineering mathematics across various levels in many different countries and teaching environments. Claus also develops numerical software in research collaboration with industry and received Lund University's Faculty of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2016.
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