Issue reading text file with pound sign

Question

I was trying to read a tab-delimited text file like this:

1 2# 3

using:

test = genfromtxt('test2.txt', delimiter='\t', dtype = 'string', skip_header=0)

However, I get the output only of 1 and 2. The # acts like an ending character in the txt file. Is there any way to solve this if I want to read the pound sign as a string?

try setting the `comments` parameter to some character that's not used. see the `genfromtxt` documentation (that's where i looked) — jdigital, Dec 04 '16 at 06:09
Thank you jDigital. In addition, if you are not sure which characters will not be used, you can set `comments=None` — user3046442, May 16 '18 at 10:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '16 at 06:22

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the_string.split('\t') should do the job if you don't have to use genfromtxt

answered Dec 04 '16 at 06:22

Shane

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I have a large data set in the txt file. Here I just use a simple example. I think I have to use getfromtxt here. – Alex Dec 04 '16 at 07:13

Issue reading text file with pound sign

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