Buggy behaviour of unpack within numpy.loadtxt
The routine loadtxt from numpy (numpy.loadtxt) can be used to load columns of data from various files. This works great as long as numbers exist and becomes buggy with strings. Suppose we have a file (named ‘test.test’) with these values: 3103725. 1616.93596535 13.656 0 2011-05-23T23:49:35 3139474. 1405.95436047 13.643 0 2011-05-23T23:51:16 …