How do I read CSV data into a record array in NumPy?

Question

I wonder if there is a direct way to import the contents of a CSV file into a record array, much in the way that R\'s read.table(), read.delim(), a

Answer 1

You can use Numpy's genfromtxt() method to do so, by setting the delimiter kwarg to a comma.

from numpy import genfromtxt
my_data = genfromtxt('my_file.csv', delimiter=',')

More information on the function can be found at its respective documentation.