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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/npyio.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/npyio.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py index 263aa82c2..25737cbbe 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py +++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py @@ -750,7 +750,10 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, while not first_vals: first_line = fh.readline() if not first_line: # EOF reached - raise IOError('End-of-file reached before encountering data.') + # Break out of the loop here, so that we return an empty array. + first_line = '' + first_vals = [] + break first_vals = split_line(first_line) N = len(usecols or first_vals) |