Parser needed.

[Skybuck Flying]

This will probably help:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14676265/how-to-read-text-file-into-a-list-or-array-with-python

text_file = open("filename.dat", "r")
lines = text_file.readlines()
print lines
print len(lines)
text_file.close() Usually I like to consult officals docs though...Bye, 
Skybuck.