[Baypiggies] Question about python read data table from a text file

[Patrick Thomas]

Try this:

data = [line.strip().split() for line in open("data.txt")]

print data[0][0] #first row, first col
print data[1][0] #second row, first col

~PST

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Yiou Li <liyiou at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a text file with numerical data, like this:
>
> data.txt
>
> 19  19  20  21  22  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  41  42  17  18  19  20
>  21  42  45  18  19  20  21  22  20  21  22  23  42  43  17  19  20
> 21  22  23  24  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  16  17  18  19  20  21
>  22  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  16  17  18  19  20  45  46  47  17
> 18  19  20  41  42  43  44  45  20  21  22  23  40  41  42  43  44  45
>  46  47  48  20  21  22  23  24  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47  48
> 17  18  19  ...
>
> Could you please refer me a python function to read this file into the
> memory as a data table?
>
> the readlines() won't work because I need to access index the number
> of ith row, jth column like x[i, j].
>
> Best,
> Leo
>