How to read a numerical data or file in Python with numpy?

Prerequisites: Numpy 

NumPy is a general-purpose array-processing package. It provides a high-performance multidimensional array object and tools for working with these arrays. This article depicts how numeric data can be read from a file using Numpy.

Numerical data can be present in different formats of file :

• The data can be saved in a txt file where each line has a new data point.
• The data can be stored in a CSV(comma separated values) file.
• The data can be also stored in TSV(tab separated values) file.

There are multiple ways of storing data in files and the above ones are some of the most used formats for storing numerical data. To achieve our required functionality numpy's loadtxt() function will be used.

Syntax: numpy.loadtxt(fname, dtype=’float’, comments=’#’, delimiter=None, converters=None, skiprows=0, usecols=None, unpack=False, ndmin=0)

Parameters:
fname : File, filename, or generator to read. If the filename extension is .gz or .bz2, the file is first decompressed. Note that generators should return byte strings for Python 3k.
dtype : Data-type of the resulting array; default: float. If this is a structured data-type, the resulting array will be 1-dimensional, and each row will be interpreted as an element of the array.
delimiter : The string used to separate values. By default, this is any whitespace.
converters : A dictionary mapping column number to a function that will convert that column to a float. E.g., if column 0 is a date string: converters = {0: datestr2num}. Default: None.
skiprows : Skip the first skiprows lines; default: 0.

Returns: ndarray

Approach

• Import module
• Load file
• Read numeric data
• Print data retrieved.

Given below are some implementation for various file formats:

Link to download data files used : 

• Link1 : gfg_example1.txt
• Link2 : gfg_example2.csv
• Link3 : gfg_example3.tsv
• Link4 : gfg_example4.csv

Example 1: Reading numerical data from text file

Output : 

Example 2: Reading numerical data from CSV file.

Output : 

Example 3: Reading from tsv file

Output : 

Example 4: Select only particular rows and skip some rows

Output :