On Feb 19, 12:32 pm, "steven.oldner" <steven.old...@gmail.com> wrote: > Simple question but I haven't found an answer. I program in ABAP, and > in ABAP you define the data structure of the file and move the file > line into the structure, and then do something to the fields. That's > my mental reference. > > How do I separate or address each field in the file line with PYTHON? > What's the correct way of thinking? > > Thanks!
I don't really follow what you mean since I've never used ABAP, but here's how I typically read a file in Python: f = open("someFile.txt") for line in f: # do something with the line print line f.close() Of course, you can read just portions of the file too, using something like this: f.read(64) Which will read 64 bytes. For more info, check the following out: http://www.diveintopython.org/file_handling/file_objects.html - Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list