On 2019-01-11, shibashib...@gmail.com <shibashib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello >> >> I'm very new in python. I have a file in the format: >> >> 2018-05-31 16:00:00 28.90 81.77 4.3 >> 2018-05-31 20:32:00 28.17 84.89 4.1 >> 2018-06-20 04:09:00 27.36 88.01 4.8 >> 2018-06-20 04:15:00 27.31 87.09 4.7 >> 2018-06-28 04.07:00 27.87 84.91 5.0 >> 2018-06-29 00.42:00 32.20 104.61 4.8 > > I would like to read this file in python column-wise. > > I tried this way but not working .... > event_list = open('seismicity_R023E.txt',"r") > info_event = read(event_list,'%s %s %f %f %f %f\n');
If it's really tabular data in fixed-width columns you can read it that way with Python. records = [] for line in file: record = [] i = 0 for width in (30, 8, 7, 5): # approximations item = line[i:i+width] record.append(item) i += width records.append(record) This leaves them all strings, which in my experience is more convenient in practice. You can convert as you go if you want,though it won't look nice and simple any longer. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list