How to use numpy.genfromtxt when first column is string and the remaining columns are numbers?

Question

Basically, I have a bunch of data where the first column is a string (label) and the remaining columns are numeric values. I run the following:

data = numpy.         


        

Answer 1

You can use numpy.recfromcsv(filename): the types of each column will be automatically determined (as if you use np.genfromtxt() with dtype=None), and by default delimiter=",". It's basically a shortcut for np.genfromtxt(filename, delimiter=",", dtype=None) that Pierre GM pointed at in his answer.