http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4175605/2010-10-28T16:18:19-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2010-10-28T16:18:19-07:00aliniumhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4175605/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577444-get-columns-of-data-from-text-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577444 by <a href="/recipes/users/4175605/">alinium</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/columns/">columns</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/file/">file</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/parsing/">parsing</a>). </p> <p>Read in a tab-delimited (or any separator-delimited like CSV) file and store each column in a list that can be referenced from a dictionary. The keys for the dictionary are the headings for the columns (if any). All data is read in as strings.</p>