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authorRoss Barnowski <rossbar@berkeley.edu>2022-10-04 21:38:46 -0700
committerRoss Barnowski <rossbar@berkeley.edu>2022-10-04 21:38:46 -0700
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DOC: Use versionchanged and add in note about newline chars.
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@@ -1085,9 +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 character used to separate the values. Only single character
- delimiters are supported. 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