scanpy.read_text

scanpy.read_text(filename, delimiter=None, first_column_names=None, dtype='float32')

Read .txt, .tab, .data (text) file.

Same as read_csv() but with default delimiter None.

Parameters

filename : PathLike | Iterator[str]Union[PathLike, Iterator[str]]

Data file, filename or stream.

delimiter : str | NoneOptional[str] (default: None)

Delimiter that separates data within text file. If None, will split at arbitrary number of white spaces, which is different from enforcing splitting at single white space ' '.

first_column_names : bool | NoneOptional[bool] (default: None)

Assume the first column stores row names.

dtype : strstr (default: 'float32')

Numpy data type.

Return type

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