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diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index f7cde270d..44a91c0c7 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -1274,8 +1274,10 @@ def genfromtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None,
first_line = asbytes('').join(first_line.split(comments)[1:])
first_values = split_line(first_line)
except StopIteration:
- # might want to return empty array instead of raising error.
- raise IOError('End-of-file reached before encountering data.')
+ # return an empty array if the datafile is empty
+ first_line = ''
+ first_values = []
+ warnings.warn('genfromtxt: Empty input file: "%s"' % fname)
# Should we take the first values as names ?
if names is True: