Using genfromtxt to import csv data with missing values in numpy

Question

I have a csv file that looks something like this (actual file has many more columns and rows):

1,2,3,4,5
6,7,8,9,10
11,12,13,14,15
16

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Answer 1

if you can ignore the 16 at the end of the file try using the

invalid_raise (bool, optional) parameter if set to False it ignores all incomplete lines without throwing an exception

see here (its the last parameter before the examples) http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.genfromtxt.html

Answer 2

The command filling_values also helped me. I set it to zero. Thus each empty value is set to zero. It probably doesn't always make sense, but maybe it will help you.