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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/npyio.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/npyio.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py index bf703bb76..5ebeae6c3 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py +++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py @@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ def _getconv(dtype): elif issubclass(typ, np.floating): return floatconv elif issubclass(typ, np.complex): - return complex + return lambda x: complex(asstr(x)) elif issubclass(typ, np.bytes_): return bytes else: @@ -863,7 +863,12 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, return tuple(ret) def split_line(line): - """Chop off comments, strip, and split at delimiter.""" + """Chop off comments, strip, and split at delimiter. + + Note that although the file is opened as text, this function + returns bytes. + + """ if comments is None: line = asbytes(line).strip(asbytes('\r\n')) else: |