NumPy has a specialized
chararray
object, which can hold strings. It is a subclass of ndarray
, and has special string methods. We will
download a text from the Python website and use those methods. The advantages of chararray
over a normal array of strings are as follows:
Let's create the character array.
Create the character array.
We can create the character array as a view:
carray = numpy.array(html).view(numpy.chararray)
Expand tabs to spaces.
Expand tabs to spaces with the
expandtabs
function. This function accepts the tab size as argument. The value is8
, if not specified:carray = carray.expandtabs(1)
Split lines.
The
splitlines
function can split a string into separate lines:carray = carray.splitlines()
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