Re: [Matplotlib-users] load function a little bit faster

[Humufr <hu...@ya...>]

>It looks like the reason the columns version of load is faster is
>because it's not doing anything...


It' not exactly true. I'm agree that the change is not big, but the 
difference comes from this two lines:

#row = [val for val in line.split()]                       #no change in float for all values

row = line.split()                # dont need the loop so forgot the precedent line 
row = [float(row[i]) for i in columns]   # float value

and in a fact there are a condition if:

the first is to keep exactly the same function than yours. The second 
part is to not transform all the element in float but only the columns 
choose and this change explain the difference...

Regards,

    Nicolas