collecting data from file

[Skip Montanaro]

    Mustafa> I want to scroll thru a file;
               [ and do stuff with it ]

    Mustafa> Any tips?

As others have mentioned, your problem was underspecified.  If your data is
tabular with a unique separator between fields, the new csv package
(available from Python CVS) should fill the bill.  Curren development
version of the docs are here:

    http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-csv.html

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