title: Reading data into numpy array from text file
body: <p>I have a file with some metadata, and then some actual data consisting of 2 columns with headings. Do I need to separate the two types of data before using genfromtxt in numpy? Or can I somehow split the data maybe? What about placing the file pointer to the end of the line just above the headers, and then trying genfromtxt from there? Thanks
  The format of the file is shown below:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &amp;SRS
  &lt;MetaDataAtStart&gt;
  multiple=True
  Wavelength (Angstrom)=0.97587
  mode=assessment
  background=True
  issid=py11n2g
  noisy=True
  &lt;/MetaDataAtStart&gt;
  &amp;END
  Two Theta(deg)  Counts(sec^-1)
  10.0    41.0
  10.1    39.0
  10.2    38.0
  10.3    38.0
  10.4    41.0
  10.5    42.0
  10.6    38.0
  10.7    44.0
  10.8    42.0
  10.9    39.0
  11.0    37.0
  11.1    37.0
  11.2    45.0
  11.3    36.0
  11.4    37.0
  11.5    37.0
  11.6    40.0
  11.7    44.0
  11.8    45.0
  11.9    46.0
  12.0    44.0
  12.1    40.0
  12.2    41.0
  12.3    39.0
  12.4    41.0
  </code></pre>