This package provides functions for reading numerical data from ASCII text files into arrays, and writing numerical data from arrays (up to rank 2) into ASCII text files.

If you compare this to numpy's loadtxt, keep in mind that loadtxt will return data consisting of a single row or single column as an array of rank 1, while it will return multi-row, multi-column data as an array of rank 2. Read-ascii-array will always return an array of rank 2. This seemed to make most sense to me from a programming and ASCII layout point of view.

For behaviour similar to numpy's loadtxt, use read-ascii-vector-or-array, which will reduce the rank for you when possible.

Note that the functions with a * appended (which work on streams) can be used in your own specialized reading functions, such as files that contain text headers, or more complex things including gray streams (such as chipz' decompressing-streams).

Note that this package relies on parse-float, which you can find on github:
git clone git://github.com/soemraws/parse-float.git