In [25]: np.genfromtxt('data.csv', encoding=int)
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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
~/mc39numpy/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/lib/npyio.py in genfromtxt(fname, dtype, comments, delimiter, skip_header, skip_footer, converters, missing_values, filling_values, usecols, names, excludelist, deletechars, replace_space, autostrip, case_sensitive, defaultfmt, unpack, usemask, loose, invalid_raise, max_rows, encoding, like)
   1812         if isinstance(fname, str):
-> 1813             fid = np.lib._datasource.open(fname, 'rt', encoding=encoding)
   1814             fid_ctx = contextlib.closing(fid)

~/mc39numpy/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/lib/_datasource.py in open(path, mode, destpath, encoding, newline)
    192     ds = DataSource(destpath)
--> 193     return ds.open(path, mode, encoding=encoding, newline=newline)
    194 

~/mc39numpy/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/lib/_datasource.py in open(self, path, mode, encoding, newline)
    528                 mode.replace("+", "")
--> 529             return _file_openers[ext](found, mode=mode,
    530                                       encoding=encoding, newline=newline)

TypeError: open() argument 'encoding' must be str or None, not type

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-25-b2096b5fdc92> in <module>
----> 1 np.genfromtxt('data.csv', encoding=int)

~/mc39numpy/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/lib/npyio.py in genfromtxt(fname, dtype, comments, delimiter, skip_header, skip_footer, converters, missing_values, filling_values, usecols, names, excludelist, deletechars, replace_space, autostrip, case_sensitive, defaultfmt, unpack, usemask, loose, invalid_raise, max_rows, encoding, like)
   1818         fhd = iter(fid)
   1819     except TypeError as e:
-> 1820         raise TypeError(
   1821             f"fname must be a string, filehandle, list of strings,\n"
   1822             f"or generator. Got {type(fname)} instead."

TypeError: fname must be a string, filehandle, list of strings,
or generator. Got <class 'str'> instead.