> Thing is, for people like me, you generally either don't know that a > question is a dumb one until someone tells you the answer, (the 'of > course' <smack forehead> moment), or until 5 minutes after you emailed > your query, you find the answer you were looking for...
Amen! My life's story! Also, to Kumar. This is what you want. test_cor = [] for line in cor: test_cor.append(line.split('\t',1)[1]) ## This only works if there are only 3 columns Or, even simpler: test_cor = [line.split('\t',1)[1] for line in cor] HTH, Jacob _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor