On Jan 11, 4:15 am, cesco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file containing four columns of data separated by tabs (\t) > and I'd like to read a specific column from it (say the third). Is > there any simple way to do this in Python?
You say you would like to "read" a specific column. I wonder if you meant read all the data and then just seperate out the 3rd column or if you really mean only do disk IO for the 3rd column of data and thereby making your read faster. The second seems more interesting but much harder and I wonder if any one has any ideas. As for the just filtering out the third column, you have been given many suggestions already. Regards, Ivan Novick http://www.0x4849.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
