scipy.io.arff.loadarff

scipy.io.arff.loadarff(filename)

Read an arff file.

Args:

filename: str

the name of the file

Returns:

data: record array

the data of the arff file. Each record corresponds to one attribute.

meta: MetaData

this contains informations about the arff file, like type and names of attributes, the relation (name of the dataset), etc...

Note:

This function should be able to read most arff files. Not implemented functionalities include:

• date type attributes
• string type attributes

It can read files with numeric and nominal attributes. It can read files with sparse data (? in the file).