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Diffstat (limited to 'numpy/lib/npyio.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/lib/npyio.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/lib/npyio.py b/numpy/lib/npyio.py index d681d7d12..f138c4cca 100644 --- a/numpy/lib/npyio.py +++ b/numpy/lib/npyio.py @@ -1064,6 +1064,12 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, # Fall back to existing code usecols = usecols_as_list + # Make sure we're dealing with a proper dtype + dtype = np.dtype(dtype) + defconv = _getconv(dtype) + + dtype_types, packing = flatten_dtype_internal(dtype) + fown = False try: if isinstance(fname, os_PathLike): @@ -1089,10 +1095,6 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, fencoding = locale.getpreferredencoding() try: - # Make sure we're dealing with a proper dtype - dtype = np.dtype(dtype) - defconv = _getconv(dtype) - # Skip the first `skiprows` lines for i in range(skiprows): next(fh) @@ -1111,7 +1113,8 @@ def loadtxt(fname, dtype=float, comments='#', delimiter=None, warnings.warn('loadtxt: Empty input file: "%s"' % fname, stacklevel=2) N = len(usecols or first_vals) - dtype_types, packing = flatten_dtype_internal(dtype) + # Now that we know N, create the default converters list, and + # set packing, if necessary. if len(dtype_types) > 1: # We're dealing with a structured array, each field of # the dtype matches a column |