From bb45b8ebf072f3eec8f949cc324d42780a11317d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Christoph.Knote" <christoph.knote@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:50:27 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Unfortunate, but Sniffer does not understand Fortran output.

---
 boxmox/data.py | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/boxmox/data.py b/boxmox/data.py
index f9b4088..e52fdc7 100644
--- a/boxmox/data.py
+++ b/boxmox/data.py
@@ -3,18 +3,20 @@ import sys
 import shutil
 import StringIO
 import csv
+import warnings
 
 import numpy as np
 
 def _mygenfromtxt(f):
     curpos = f.tell()
-    dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(f.read(1048576), delimiters=";, ")
-    # for FORTRAN output, we "just" know we have to set this.
-    dialect.skipinitialspace = True
-    f.seek(curpos)
+    try:
+        dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(f.read(1048576), delimiters=";, ")
+        f.seek(curpos)
+        spamreader = csv.reader(f, dialect)
+    except:
+        warnings.warn('Could not determine dialect, falling back to default.')
+        spamreader = csv.reader(f, skipinitialspace = True, delimiter=" ")
     # twice as fast as np.genfromtxt(..., names=True)
-#    spamreader = csv.reader(f, skipinitialspace = True, delimiter=" ")
-    spamreader = csv.reader(f, dialect)
     hdr = spamreader.next()
     dat = []
     for row in spamreader:
-- 
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