Bugfix: [ 1745650 ] patch for mlab.py's comment handling

mdboom · mdboom · commit 25743a65e67e · 2007-11-09T21:09:04.000Z
Comment handling had the potential to lose the last character of a
line.  Slightly different from user submitted patch -- uses split()
instead of three lines of Python code.

svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=4198
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py b/lib/matplotlib/mlab.py
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ def load(fname,comments='#',delimiter=None, converters=None,skiprows=0,
     converterseq = None
     for i,line in enumerate(fh):
         if i<skiprows: continue
-        line = line[:line.find(comments)].strip()
+        line = line.split(comments, 1).strip()
         if not len(line): continue
         if converterseq is None:
             converterseq = [converters.get(j,float)
