Reading Fortran Data

[Tyler]

Hello All:

After trying to find an open source alternative to Matlab (or IDL), I
am currently getting acquainted with Python and, in particular SciPy,
NumPy, and Matplotlib. While I await the delivery of Travis Oliphant's
NumPy manual, I have a quick question (hopefully) regarding how to read
in Fortran written data.

The data files are not binary, but ASCII text files with no formatting
and mixed data types (strings, integers, floats). For example, I have
the following write statements in my Fortran code:

I write the files as such:
  WRITE(90,'(A30)') fgeo_name
  WRITE(90,'(A30)') fmed_name
  WRITE(90,*) nfault,npoint
  WRITE(90,*) (xpt(n), n=1,npoint)
  WRITE(90,*) (ypt(n), n=1,npoint)

and,

  WRITE(10,'(A30)') fname
  DO i=1,nfault
     WRITE(10,*) dbn(i),dtn(i),xfwnt(i),yfwnt(i),xfent(i),yfent(i),&
          &        slpvlS(i),slpvlD(i),slpvlT(i),segdp1(i)
  END DO


I then respectively read them into Fortran as:
  READ(70,'(A30)') fgeo_name
  READ(70,'(A30)') fmed_name
  READ(70,*) nfault,npoint
  READ(70,*) (x(n), n=1,npoint)
  READ(70,*) (y(n), n=1,npoint)

and,

  READ(20,'(A30)') fname
  DO i=1,nfault
     READ(20,*) dbn(i),dtn(i),xfwnt(i),yfwnt(i),xfent(i),yfent(i),&
          &        slpvlS(i),slpvlD(i),slpvlT(i),segdp1(i)
  END DO

I also read them into IDL for visualization using the "READF" command.
I was wondering how I might go about reading this into Python using
NumPy. If this is not trivial, let me know and I'll just wait until the
NumPy manual arrives.

Cheers,

t.