I need to read columns of complex numbers in the format:

# index; (real part, imaginary part); (real part, imaginary part) 1 (1.2, 0.16) (2.8, 1.1) 2 (2.85, 6.9) (5.8, 2.2) 

NumPy seems great for reading in columns of data with only a single delimiter, but the parenthesis seem to ruin any attempt at using numpy.loadtxt().

Is there a clever way to read in the file with Python, or is it best to just read the file, remove all of the parenthesis, then feed it to NumPy?

This will need to be done for thousands of files so I would like an automated way, but maybe NumPy is not capable of this.

I need to read columns of complex numbers in the format:

# index; (real part, imaginary part); (real part, imaginary part) 1 (1.2, 0.16) (2.8, 1.1) 2 (2.85, 6.9) (5.8, 2.2) 

NumPy seems great for reading in columns of data with only a single delimiter, but the parenthesis seem to ruin any attempt at using numpy.loadtxt().

Is there a clever way to read in the file with Python, or is it best to just read the file, remove all of the parenthesis, then feed it to NumPy?

This will need to be done for thousands of files so I would like an automated way, but maybe NumPy is not capable of this.

I need to read columns of complex numbers in the format:

# index; (real part, imaginary part); (real part, imaginary part) 1 (1.2,0.16) (2.8,1.1) 2 (2.85,6.9) (5.8,2.2) 

numpy seems great for reading in columns of data with only a single delimiter, but the parenthesis seem to ruin any attempt at using numpy.loadtxt()

Is there a clever way to read in the file with python, or is it best to just read the file, remove all of the parenthesis, then feed it to numpy?

This will need to be done for thousands of files so I would like an automated way, but maybe numpy is not capable of this.

I need to read columns of complex numbers in the format:

# index; (real part, imaginary part); (real part, imaginary part)     1  (1.2, 0.16)  (2.8, 1.1)  2  (2.85, 6.9)  (5.8, 2.2) 

NumPy seems great for reading in columns of data with only a single delimiter, but the parenthesis seem to ruin any attempt at using numpy.loadtxt().

Is there a clever way to read in the file with Python, or is it best to just read the file, remove all of the parenthesis, then feed it to NumPy?

This will need to be done for thousands of files so I would like an automated way, but maybe NumPy is not capable of this.