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np.genfromtxt

Load tabular text into a NumPy array while handling missing values. You can control delimiters, types, names, converters, selected columns, and output shape.

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Since
1.23.0 (ndmin parameter)

Syntax

numpy.genfromtxt(fname, dtype=<class 'float'>, comments='#', delimiter=None, skip_header=0, skip_footer=0, converters=None, missing_values=None, filling_values=None, usecols=None, names=None, excludelist=None, deletechars=" !#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^{|}~", replace_space='_', autostrip=False, case_sensitive=True, defaultfmt='f%i', unpack=None, usemask=False, loose=True, invalid_raise=True, max_rows=None, encoding=None, *, ndmin=0, like=None)

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Source: numpy.genfromtxt — NumPy v2.6.dev0 Manual. Checked 2026-11-03.