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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)