If you have a file "ints.txt" with contents 10 20 30 40 50 60
You could read integers into a list with ivec = [] for text in open("ints.txt","r"): words = text.split() for x in words: ivec.append(int(x)) print ivec If you know you want to read two integers into variables a,b from a line you could write a,b = int(words[0]),int(words[1]) Excuse me, but if your question is really so elementary that this post answered it, you should probably read a book or tutorial. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list