Hello, I am not understanding your answer, but I probably asked the wrong question :-)
I want to remove the commas, and square brackets [ and ] characters and rewrite this whole line (and all the ones following in a text file where only space would be a delimiter. How do I do this ? I have tried this: f = open(name3,'r') r = r"\d+\.\d*" for line in f: cols = line.split() data1 = re.findall(r,line) and then I don't know what to do with either cols nor data1 Jake. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list