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Quick no-features version of R's scan to be used for URLs only
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read_scan.py
from urllib2 import urlopen
from itertools import chain
def scan(url, sep=" ", skiprows=0):
f = urlopen(url).readlines()[skiprows:]
return map(float, chain(*map(lambda x : x.strip().split(sep), f)))
if __name__ == "__main__":
url = "http://robjhyndman.com/tsdldata/hurst/precip1.dat"
scan(url, 1)
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