How to read fields from a file?

[Kurda Yon]

Hi,

I have a file with data written in a "matrix" form. In other words,
every row contains a fixed number of fields and I am interested in the
value of each field of every row.

I managed to read rows in the following way:
f = open('filename.dat','r')
for line in f:
x = line
f.close()

However, I cannot find out how to split every line into fields? What
should I do if I, let's say, need a value which is located in the
third row in the second column (field).

Thank you!

[Kurda Yon]

I found line.split()! It works great! I think it is exactly what I
need. Or may be there are some more elegant solutions?

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On Oct 1, 2:58*am, Kurda Yon <[e-mail]:

I found line.split()! It works great! I think it is exactly what I
need. Or may be there are some more elegant solutions

Why are you posting in comp.lang.php questions about language with is
not connected to PHP ?

LOL

[Kurda Yon]

On Oct 1, 5:07 am, Kristaps Kûlis <[e-mail]:

On Oct 1, 2:58 am, Kurda Yon <[e-mail]:

I found line.split()! It works great! I think it is exactly what I
need. Or may be there are some more elegant solutions

Why are you posting in comp.lang.php questions about language with is
not connected to PHP ?

LOL

Sorry, I did it by a mistake. It should be python... Thank you that
you indicated that.