good to know! I guess I still have a place in my heart for formatted input.... that, and creating XML schemas for all our old studies sounds like far too much fun! >>> astraw@xxxxxxxxxxx 26/01/05 9:59 PM >>> Gabriel Nevarez wrote: >Incidentally (and completely off-topic), I also had issues reading tab-delimited >files, since most "true" python-ers recommend using regular expressions instead >of scanf()... nothing wrong with that, but we have quite a few tab-delimitted >data files for existing studies for which it would be an absolute pain to, um, >grep (so to speak)... ;) > >found this little gem: >http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/scanf/ > > I've used the csv module (comma separated values) with great success. Although I haven't used it with tabs, it appears you can change the delimiter from comma, so it may also be worth a look. And it's in the standard library as of Python 2.3. Cheers! Andrew -- Andrew D. Straw Post-doctoral scholar ,-. Dickinson Lab \_/ California Institute of Technology 8||} Mailcode 138-78 / \ Pasadena CA 91125, USA `-^ email: astraw@xxxxxxxxxxx office: +1 626 395 5828 ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: http://www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html ====================================== The Vision Egg mailing list Archives: http://www.freelists.org/archives/visionegg Website: http://www.visionegg.org/mailinglist.html