access spreadsheet data

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/14/2012 1:35 AM, Amit Agrawal wrote:
> my problem is, i want to access data in spreadsheet to python code manualy
> My data is
>
> 1/1982 8:00:000
> 1/2/1982 8:00:000
> 1/3/1982 8:00:000
> 1/4/1982 8:00:000
> 1/5/1982 8:00:000.7885
> 1/6/1982 8:00:000
> 1/7/1982 8:00:000
> 1/8/1982 8:00:001.6127

You used tabs, which get deleted by some mail/news readers. Anyway, here 
is a start:

data='''\
1/1982 8:00:00 0
1/5/1982 8:00:00 0.7885
1/19/1982 8:00:00 0
1/20/1982 8:00:00 0'''

lines = data.split('\n')
# up to here, only for example

for line in lines:
     fields = line.split()
     print('date {}: time {}: value {}'.format(fields[0], fields[1], 
fields[2]))

 >>>
date 1/1982: time 8:00:00: value 0
date 1/5/1982: time 8:00:00: value 0.7885
date 1/19/1982: time 8:00:00: value 0
date 1/20/1982: time 8:00:00: value 0

For real usage assume data are in data.txt in current directory. Then 
start with

with open('data.txt') as lines:
   for line in lines....

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy