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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/npyio.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/npyio.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py index bedd0e941..a40de4fea 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py +++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py @@ -729,7 +729,8 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, """ # Type conversions for Py3 convenience - comments = asbytes(comments) + if comments is not None: + comments = asbytes(comments) user_converters = converters if delimiter is not None: delimiter = asbytes(delimiter) @@ -802,7 +803,10 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, def split_line(line): """Chop off comments, strip, and split at delimiter.""" - line = asbytes(line).split(comments)[0].strip(asbytes('\r\n')) + if comments is None: + line = asbytes(line).strip(asbytes('\r\n')) + else: + line = asbytes(line).split(comments)[0].strip(asbytes('\r\n')) if line: return line.split(delimiter) else: |