numpy.recarray.tofile¶

recarray.tofile(fid,sep="",format="%s")¶

Write array to a file as text or binary (default).

Data is always written in ‘C’ order, independent of the order ofa.The data produced by this method can be recovered using the functionfromfile().

Parameters:	fid:file or str An open file object, or a string containing a filename. sep:str Separator between array items for text output.If “” (empty), a binary file is written, equivalent tofile.write(a.tobytes()). format:str Format string for text file output.Each entry in the array is formatted to text by first convertingit to the closest Python type, and then using “format” % item.

Notes

This is a convenience function for quick storage of array data.Information on endianness and precision is lost, so this method is not agood choice for files intended to archive data or transport data betweenmachines with different endianness. Some of these problems can be overcomeby outputting the data as text files, at the expense of speed and filesize.

When fid is a file object, array contents are directly written to thefile, bypassing the file object’swrite method. As a result, tofilecannot be used with files objects supporting compression (e.g., GzipFile)or file-like objects that do not supportfileno() (e.g., BytesIO).