Reading file string into an array (In a pythonic way)

Question

I\'m reading lines from a file to then work with them. Each line is composed solely by float numbers.

I have pretty much everything sorted up to convert the lines in

Answer 1

I would use regular expressions

import re

all_lines = ''.join( file.readlines() )

new_array = np.array( re.findall('[\d.E+-]+', all_lines), float)

np.reshape( new_array, (m,n) )

First merging the files into one long string, and then extracting only the expressions corresponding to floats ( '[\d.E+-]' for scientific notation, but you can also use '[\d.]' for only float expressions).