carputils.carpio.txt Namespace Reference

Provides a class for .dat and .vec IO to/from python numpy arrays. More...

Classes
class	TxtFile
	file IO class for reading ascii files with extensions More...

Functions
def	open (args, kwargs)
	Open an .dat or .vec file. More...
def	read (args, kwargs)
	read data based on file extension More...
def	write (filename, data, kwargs)

Variables
	fopen = open

Detailed Description

Provides a class for .dat and .vec IO to/from python numpy arrays.

Function Documentation

open()

def carputils.carpio.txt.open	(		args,
			kwargs
	)

Open an .dat or .vec file.

Convenience method to provide normal python style interface to create a file type object.

Parameters

filename	str The filename to open
mode	str, optional 'r' for read mode (default), 'w' for write mode

read()

def carputils.carpio.txt.read	(		args,
			kwargs
	)

read data based on file extension

Handled file types: .elem, .dat, .vec, .vtx, .pts

Parameters

filename	str The filename to open
mode	str, optional 'r' for read mode (default), 'w' for write mode

Returns

When reading an .elem file a tuple containing data, tags, numbe data ... 1D or 2D array of integers or float
tags ... in the case of an .elem file
nelems ... in the case of an .elem file

tags ... in the case of an .elem file
npts ... in case of a .pts file
domain ... in case of .vtx file

write()

def carputils.carpio.txt.write	(		filename,
			data,
			kwargs
	)

Variable Documentation

fopen

carputils.carpio.txt.fopen = open