Reading in strings -> numbers ??

[Michael A. Miller]

>>>>> "Louis" == Louis M Pecora <pecora at anvil.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

    > After three weeks of learning Python have I actually found
    > a real wart?  A common requirment in programming
    > (especially for numerical stuff) is to read in data that is
    > often generated by other programs and other people.  The
    > common form is a "table" structure:

You might be able to make use of TableIO [1], which I wrote to
satisfy my needs for reading and writing white-space delimited
ascii data. 

Mike

[1] http://php.iupui.edu/~mmiller3/python/

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  Krannert Institute of Cardiology, IU School of Medicine
  Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine