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diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
index 197562818..29688f73d 100644
--- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py
+++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ def genfromtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None,
try:
while not first_values:
first_line = _decode_line(next(fhd), encoding)
- if names is True:
+ if (names is True) and (comments is not None):
if comments in first_line:
first_line = (
''.join(first_line.split(comments)[1:]))
@@ -1734,8 +1734,9 @@ def genfromtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None,
# Should we take the first values as names ?
if names is True:
fval = first_values[0].strip()
- if fval in comments:
- del first_values[0]
+ if comments is not None:
+ if fval in comments:
+ del first_values[0]
# Check the columns to use: make sure `usecols` is a list
if usecols is not None: