datamining .txt-files, library?

[Ville M. Vainio]

Chris <cwitts at gmail.com> writes:

> On May 15, 2:27 pm, globalrev <skanem... at yahoo.se> wrote:

>> i have a big collection of .txt files that i want to open and parse to
>> extract information.
>>
>> is there a library for this or maybe even built in?
>
> os.open to open the files and iterate through it and built in string
> functions to parse it.

Or more probably, regular expression library "re".