I am having trouble reading a csv file, delimited by tabs, in python. I use the following function:
def csv2array(filename, skiprows=0, delimiter='\t', raw_header=False, missing=None, with_header=True):
"""
Parse a file name into an array. Return the array and additional header lines. By default,
parse the header lines into dictionaries, assuming the parameters are numeric,
using 'parse_header'.
"""
f = open(filename, 'r')
skipped_rows = []
for n in range(skiprows):
header_line = f.readline().strip()
if raw_header:
skipped_rows.append(header_line)
else:
skipped_rows.append(parse_header(header_line))
f.close()
if missing:
data = genfromtxt(filename, dtype=None, names=with_header,
deletechars='', skiprows=skiprows, missing=missing)
else:
if delimiter != '\t':
data = genfromtxt(filename, dtype=None, names=with_header, delimiter=delimiter,
deletechars='', skiprows=skiprows)
else:
data = genfromtxt(filename, dtype=None, names=with_header,
deletechars='', skiprows=skiprows)
if data.ndim == 0:
data = array([data.item()])
return (data, skipped_rows)
the problem is that genfromtxt complains about my files, e.g. with the error:
Line #27100 (got 12 columns instead of 16)
I am not sure where these errors come from. Any ideas?
Here's an example file that causes the problem:
#Gene 120-1 120-3 120-4 30-1 30-3 30-4 C-1 C-2 C-5 genesymbol genedesc
ENSMUSG00000000001 7.32 9.5 7.76 7.24 11.35 8.83 6.67 11.35 7.12 Gnai3 guanine nucleotide binding protein alpha
ENSMUSG00000000003 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Pbsn probasin
Is there a better way to write a generic csv2array function? thanks.
