DOC: Update docs for numpy.genfromtxt.

Note that a list of strings can be passed as the first parameter.
The strings are treated as the lines in a file.

Closes #6247

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index 12052a08e..9f90039eb 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -1271,10 +1271,12 @@ def genfromtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None,
 
     Parameters
     ----------
-    fname : file or str
-        File, filename, or generator to read.  If the filename extension is
+    fname : file, str, list of str
+        File, filename, list, or generator to read.  If the filename extension is
         `.gz` or `.bz2`, the file is first decompressed. Note that
         generators must return byte strings in Python 3k.
+        The strings in a list or strings produced by a generator are treated
+        as lines.
     dtype : dtype, optional
         Data type of the resulting array.
         If None, the dtypes will be determined by the contents of each
@@ -1455,7 +1457,7 @@ def genfromtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None,
             fhd = iter(fname)
     except TypeError:
         raise TypeError(
-            "fname must be a string, filehandle, or generator. "
+            "fname must be a string, filehandle, list of strings, or generator. "
             "(got %s instead)" % type(fname))
 
     split_line = LineSplitter(delimiter=delimiter, comments=comments,