# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Created on Mon Sep 28 12:13:17 2020 @author: jbobowsk """ # This tutorial is used to demonstrate how to import data stored in a file # into an array. import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Import data. Use 'np.loadtext()' to import the data contained in the file # 'short - 085 - 10 MHz - 13.5 GHz - 00.txt'. In this example, the file # must be contained in the same folder as the Python script (*.py file). shortData = np.loadtxt("short - 085 - 10 MHz - 13.5 GHz - 00.txt") # The np.shape() function tells us that Python has imported the data as a # matrix with 3201 rows and 3 columns. print(np.shape(shortData)) # Here's another way to implement the shape function. print(shortData.shape) # Here's the matrix of imported data. print(shortData) # In this next example, the file is in a folder called 'folder' that is # contained in the same folder as the Python script (*.py file). This line # will only work for you if you create 'folder' and put the data file in it. shortData = np.loadtxt("folder/short - 085 - 10 MHz - 13.5 GHz - 00.txt") # It will work even is you use '\' instead of '/' in the file path. shortData = np.loadtxt("folder\short - 085 - 10 MHz - 13.5 GHz - 00.txt") # In this example, the entire path leading to the file is specified. # This line will not work for you because you won't have the same folder # structure that I have. You'll have to make the appropriate edits. shortData = np.loadtxt(\ "G:/UBCO/2020-2021/Python/20200928/folder/short - 085 - 10 MHz - 13.5 GHz - 00.txt") # To access the individual columns of data, use: freq = shortData[:, 0] real = shortData[:, 1] imag = shortData[:, 2] print(freq) # Of course, we can do do mathematical operations on the data arrays. # For example, here's the manitude of the complex data set ploted on a log-log scale. mag = np.sqrt(real**2 + imag**2) plt.loglog(freq, mag)