Fixed a bug with loadtxt and savetxt failing on record arrays. This addresses ticket #623.

Added simple tests for loadtxt and savetxt.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/lib/io.py b/numpy/lib/io.py
index 521148a5f..7be3c9804 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/io.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/io.py
@@ -312,9 +312,7 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, converters=None,
         X.append(row)
 
     X = np.array(X, dtype)
-    r,c = X.shape
-    if r==1 or c==1:
-        X.shape = max([r,c]),
+    X = np.squeeze(X)
     if unpack: return X.T
     else:  return X
 
@@ -355,7 +353,7 @@ def savetxt(fname, X, fmt='%.18e',delimiter=' '):
 
     X = np.asarray(X)
     origShape = None
-    if len(X.shape)==1:
+    if len(X.shape)==1 and not hasattr(X.dtype, 'names'):
         origShape = X.shape
         X.shape = len(X), 1
     for row in X: