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authorSebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net>2022-10-05 07:28:23 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-10-05 07:28:23 +0200
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Merge pull request #22372 from rossbar/doc/update-delimiter-descr
DOC: Update delimiter param description.
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diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
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@@ -1085,8 +1085,13 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None,
comment. None implies no comments. For backwards compatibility, byte
strings will be decoded as 'latin1'. The default is '#'.
delimiter : str, optional
- The string used to separate values. For backwards compatibility, byte
- strings will be decoded as 'latin1'. The default is whitespace.
+ The character used to separate the values. For backwards compatibility,
+ byte strings will be decoded as 'latin1'. The default is whitespace.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 1.23.0
+ Only single character delimiters are supported. Newline characters
+ cannot be used as the delimiter.
+
converters : dict or callable, optional
Converter functions to customize value parsing. If `converters` is
callable, the function is applied to all columns, else it must be a