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On 09/05/12 08:08, Ramchandra Apte wrote: > On Monday, 27 August 2012 15:42:14 UTC+5:30, Laszlo Nagy wrote: >> On 2012-08-27 11:53, Huso wrote: >>> I am trying to extract some text table data from a log file >> >> fin = open("test.txt","r") >> >> for line in fin: >> >> # This is one possible way to extract values. >> >> values = line.strip().split() >> >> print values > > the csv module should be used for this not regex The problem is that the csv module expects a single delimiter character, not columnar data. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list