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[Alain Ketterlin]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

> On 10/17/2014 6:43 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 17Oct2014 11:45, Dhananjay <dhananjay.c.joshi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 2.1576318858 -1.8651195165 4.2333428278
>>> ...
>>> (total of 200 lines)
>>>
>>> Columns 1,2,3 corresponds to x,y,z axis data points.
>
>>    for line in open('flooding-psiphi.dat','r'):
>>        line = line.split()
>>        xs.append(float(line[0]))
>>        ys.append(float(line[1]))
>>        zs.append(float(line[2]))
>
> A further refinement:
>    for line in open('flooding-psiphi.dat','r'):
>        x, y, z = map(float, line.split())
>        xs.append(x)
>        ys.append(y)
>        zs.append(z)

Or even:

xs,ys,zs = zip(*[ map(float,line.split())
                  for line in open('flooding-psiphi.dat','r') ])

You get tuples, though. Use map(list,zip(...)) if you need lists. Easy
to update when you move to 4D data...

-- Alain.