There is an old python package which does it neatly http://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/python/tableio.html
Regards, Abdul Muneer -- Follow me on Twitter: @abdulmuneer <http://twitter.com/#%21/abdulmuneer> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Kulkarni, Shreyas <shy...@gmail.com> wrote: > if this is a valid tab-seperated file, you could try parsing it using csv > module with dialect set to '\t' or 'excel-tab' maybe? > > shreyas > > On Feb 19, 2014, at 5:43 PM, "kamalakar06 ." <foxrun2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a file like this(Tabular data) : > > > > 0 1 CEN/4 1.0000e3 3.000e3 4.000e-3 > > 1.000e-3 3.000e3 5.000e3 > > > > 11 2.000e3 3.000e4 6.000e3 > > 1.000e4 1.000e4 1.000e5 > > > > 12 1.00e4 1.000e5 1.000e6 > > 2.00e4 2.000e5 1.000e4 > > > > 0 2 CEN/4 1.0000e3 3.000e3 4.000e-3 > > 1.000e-3 3.000e3 5.000e3 > > > > 41 2.000e3 3.000e4 6.000e3 > > 1.000e4 1.000e4 1.000e5 > > > > 50 1.00e4 1.000e5 1.000e6 > > 2.00e4 2.000e5 1.000e4 > > > > > > > > I want to extract the data column wise. How do i do that > > > > My code is like this : > > > > import os > > > > f1=open('newdata1.txt','w') > > L = [] > > for index, line in enumerate(open('Trial_1.txt','r')): > > #print index > > if index < 0: #skip first 5 lines > > continue > > else: > > line =line.split() > > L.append('%s\t%s\t %s\t %s\t%s\n' %(line[0], > > line[1],line[2],line[3],line[4])) > > > > > > f1.writelines(L) > > > > f1.close() > > > > > > > > Output looks like this: > > > > 0 1 CEN/4 1.0000e3 3.000e3 > > 1.000e-3 3.000e3 5.000e3 > > > > > > Now the code is not extracting the column data properly,since there is > tab > > space after first line . How to give tab space in python wherever space > is > > there to extract the data properly.Where to modify my code. > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
