What to use instead of csv2rec

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According to the documentation matplotlib.mlab.csv2rec is deprecated, but the message doesn't indicate what we should move to instead. This is an extremely useful function that keeps my scripts short, I don't want to go rewrite all of this by hand. What should I replace this with?

https://matplotlib.org/api/mlab_api.html#matplotlib.mlab.csv2rec

There is no alternative within matplotlib. Can you use numpy.genfromtxt, or pandas.read-csv? If not, it might make sense to show your usecase in the question. — ImportanceOfBeingErnest, Mar 22 '19 at 12:53
Thanks, `numpy.recfromtxt` seems to do what I want (added in answer). — Elliott Slaughter, Mar 22 '19 at 17:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '19 at 17:16

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I've been able to get by with the following workaround:

import numpy as np
def csv2rec(filename):
    return np.recfromtxt(filename, dtype=None, delimiter=',', names=True, encoding='utf-8')

answered Mar 22 '19 at 17:16

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