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authorRoss Barnowski <rossbar@berkeley.edu>2022-10-03 10:24:44 -0700
committerRoss Barnowski <rossbar@berkeley.edu>2022-10-03 10:24:44 -0700
commita1fd7b6a791ff804007d07a4831388837022e1c0 (patch)
tree05ff6fe8bf1c0895a6be467e90037ab8047c0e8c /numpy/lib
parent25ed0312cfbbddb60aa8f1491248f03f9eca5caa (diff)
downloadnumpy-a1fd7b6a791ff804007d07a4831388837022e1c0.tar.gz
DOC: Update delimiter param description.
Explicitly state that only single-character delimiters are supported.
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diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index 89b01c845..7c19b5616 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -1085,7 +1085,8 @@ 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
+ 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.
converters : dict or callable, optional
Converter functions to customize value parsing. If `converters` is