Hi, matlab has a useful function called "textread" which I am trying to reproduce in python.
two inputs: filename, format (%s for string, %d for integers, etc and arbitary delimiters) variable number of outputs (to correspond to the format given as input); So suppose your file looked like this str1 5 2.12 str1 3 0.11 etc with tab delimited columns. then you would call it as c1,c2,c3=textread(filename, '%s\t%d\t%f') Unfortunately I do not know how to read a line from a file using the line format given as above. Any help would be much appreciated les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
