reading a specific column from file

[A.T.Hofkamp]

On 2008-01-11, cesco <fd.calabrese at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file containing four columns of data separated by tabs (\t)
> and I'd like to read a specific column from it (say the third). Is
> there any simple way to do this in Python?
>
> I've found quite interesting the linecache module but unfortunately
> that is (to my knowledge) only working on lines, not columns.
>
> Any suggestion?

the csv module may do what you want.