parsing a file [newbie]

[Langa Kentane]

How do I read a file.
This is what I want to do. 
Run a command using os.popen and store the file info that it returns to x
Open file x and read the contents.[ contents of x will be a mount output.]
Go to the third column of the mount output and and store in y

How would I go about doing this.

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