Python read text file columnwise

[shibashibani at gmail.com]

Hello
> 
> I'm very new in python. I have a file in the format:
> 
> 2018-05-31	16:00:00	28.90	81.77	4.3
> 2018-05-31	20:32:00	28.17	84.89	4.1
> 2018-06-20	04:09:00	27.36	88.01	4.8
> 2018-06-20	04:15:00	27.31	87.09	4.7
> 2018-06-28	04.07:00	27.87	84.91	5.0
> 2018-06-29	00.42:00	32.20	104.61	4.8

I would like to read this file in python column-wise.  

I tried this way but not working ....
  event_list = open('seismicity_R023E.txt',"r")
    info_event = read(event_list,'%s %s %f %f %f %f\n');