* genfromtxt : if names is True, accept a line starting with a comment character as header.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/lib/io.py b/numpy/lib/io.py
index 303796d5f..5a3a077cb 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/io.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/io.py
@@ -748,7 +748,14 @@ def genfromtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, skiprows=0,
         first_line = fhd.readline()
         if first_line == '':
             raise IOError('End-of-file reached before encountering data.')
-        first_values = split_line(first_line)
+        if names is True:
+            first_values = first_line.strip().split(delimiter)
+        else:
+            first_values = split_line(first_line)
+    if names is True:
+        fval = first_values[0].strip()
+        if fval in comments:
+            del first_values[0]
 
     # Check the columns to use
     if usecols is not None: