Dear Ana, your example data could be transformed into a matrix with
>>>import csv >>>rows = csv.reader(open("your_data_file.csv"), delimiter=" ") >>>array = [row for row in rows] >>>array[0][3] 4 HTH Paolo Am Freitag, 12. April 2013 19:29:05 UTC+2 schrieb Ana Dionísio: > That only puts the data in one column, I wanted to separate it. > > > > For example: > > data in csv file: > > > > 1 2 3 4 5 > > 7 8 9 10 11 > > a b c d e > > > > I wanted an array where I could pick an element in each position. In the case > above if I did print array[0][3] it would pick 4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list