Anish Chapagain: > cnt0001a 29000 xretya 01 > cnt0002a 29850 brishal 02 > cnt0003a 31250 kristal 03 > from here, I need to copy data 29000, 29850, 31250 into a single list > and > 01, 02, 03 to another so as to plot graph using these value.
This may offer you a starting point: >>> line = "cnt0003a 31250 kristal 03" >>> parts = line.split() >>> parts ['cnt0003a', '31250', 'kristal', '03'] >>> parts[1], parts[3] ('31250', '03') >>> map(int, [parts[1], parts[3]]) [31250, 3] Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list