==== Reading and writing files ====

=== Ascii ===

=== Binary ===

''import numpy as np\\
fd = open(filename , 'rb')        #'r' for read, 'b' for binary\\
read_data = np.fromfile(fd, np.float32) #'float32' or one of the other numpy-datatypes\\
shape_xy = (270,207)\\
tau = read_data.reshape(shape_xy)\\
fd.close()''

== Direct reading of bzipped files ==

''import numpy as np\\
from bz2 import * \\
fd = BZ2File(filename, 'r') \\
read_data = array(fromstring(fd.read(), np.dtype('f4'))) #fd.read() returns a string,  fromstring converts to float32\\
shape_xy = (270,207)\\
tau = read_data.reshape(shape_xy)\\
fd.close()''


=== Netcdf ===