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SciPy Recipes
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SciPy Recipes

by Luiz Felipe Martins, Ke Wu, Ruben Oliva Ramos, V Kishore Ayyadevara
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Storing a NumPy array in CSV format

The savetxt() function admits several parameters, which are useful when we want to output the array in a format that is compatible with a specific application. In this recipe, we show you how to store a NumPy array in CSV format. Comma-separated values (CSV) are used to store tabular data in a text file. Each row of the table is stored in a line of text and elements in each row are separated by a comma. The following code illustrates how to save an array in CSV format:

m, n = 10, 5x = np.random.rand(m, n)columns = ','.join(['Column {}'.format(str(i+1)) for i in range(n)])np.savetxt('array_x.csv', x, fmt='%10.8f',            delimiter=',', header=columns, comments='')

With this code, we first generate a 10 x 5 array ...

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