Newby Question for reading a file

[Mike Driscoll]

On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" <steven.old... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simple question but I haven't found an answer.  I program in ABAP, and
> in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move the file
> line into the structure, and then do something to the fields.  That's
> my mental reference.
>
> How do I separate or address each field in the file line with PYTHON?
> What's the correct way of thinking?
>
> Thanks!

I don't really follow what you mean since I've never used ABAP, but
here's how I typically read a file in Python:

f = open("someFile.txt")
for line in f:
    # do something with the line
    print line
f.close()

Of course, you can read just portions of the file too, using something
like this:

f.read(64)

Which will read 64 bytes. For more info, check the following out:

http://www.diveintopython.org/file_handling/file_objects.html

 - Mike