diff -r cad8e64dcd82 -r 4d8ef03627b5 loading-data-from-files/script.rst --- a/loading-data-from-files/script.rst Fri Oct 08 11:30:31 2010 +0530 +++ b/loading-data-from-files/script.rst Fri Oct 08 11:31:01 2010 +0530 @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ Now, let us use the ``loadtxt`` command to read a file that contains two columns of data, ``pendulum.txt``. This file contains the length of the pendulum in the first column and the corresponding time period -in the second. +in the second. Note that ``loadtxt`` needs both the columns to have +equal number of rows. .. Following is an exercise that you must do. @@ -139,9 +140,8 @@ In this tutorial, we have learnt the basic use of the ``loadtxt`` command, which is capable of doing a lot more than we have used it for -until now, for example - -Following is an exercise that you must do. +until now. Let us look at an example, but before that do this +exercise. %%1%% Read the file ``pendulum_semicolon.txt`` which contains the same data as ``pendulum.txt``, but the columns are separated by semi-colons