Python read text file columnwise

[Cameron Simpson]

On 11Jan2019 12:43, shibashibani at gmail.com <shibashibani at gmail.com> wrote:
>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

It is unclear what delimits the columns, but it looks like whitespace: 
tabs and/or spaces.

You could read the file a line at a time and call .split() on each line 
to get the nonwhitespace fields, which would seem to correspond to the 
columns above.

That gets you an list of strings; then you could convert them for 
processing as required.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>