new user needs help!

[Tim Chase]

> f = open("/tmp/data.txt", 'w')
> 
> will open that file.
> 
> You can throw the first line away with
> 
> headings = f.next()
> 
> Then you can loop over the rest with
> 
> for name, aa, topo, access, dssp, stride, z in file:
>      #
>      # Then process each line here


Small caveat here...Steve changed file-variables on you here, and 
assumed a tuple-unpacking that won't work.  You'll want something 
like

   for line in f:
     (name, aa, topo, access, dssp, stride, z) = (
	line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
     # process the line here

I don't know how your fields are delimited, whether by spaces or 
tabs.  In the above code, I split by tabs, but you can just use 
.split() if it should be split on any white-space.  It's a bit 
more complex if you need to split by column-offsets.

-tkc