arrays - Python (scipy) import time from text file -

i have text file:

2010-05-16 2010-09-26 2011-04-28 

each line string: yyyy-mm-dd

my goal read text file , write information array.

import scipy sp x=sp.empty(200,ftype=sp.datetime64)      file=open(place,'r') p in file:     x[i]=p 

but not work. see "an error". how can solve task? know can use panda need write scipy array.

try this:

import numpy np   x = np.empty(200, dtype='datetime64[d]')  open(place, 'r') f:     i, date in enumerate(f):         x[i] = date.strip() 

firstly, it's dtype, not ftype. then, need use datetime64[d] since date, not date , time. then, date has newline @ end, results in parse error (strip() fixes this). might want use np.zeros() instead of np.empty().

you can access these methods through scipy well, they're technically part of numpy, use import numpy np.