Python; jump to a concrete line

[Russell Blau]

"Horacius ReX" <horacius.rex at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi, sorry but after looking for information, I still did not get how,
> when reading a text file in python, can one jump to a concrete line
> and then read the different data (separated by spaces). In each line
> there is different number of columns so sometimes i get kind of "index
> out" error. Is there a better way to read the different data on each
> row and avoiding to know the exact number of columns ?

Have you considered using the file.readlines() method?

Russ