Washakie wrote: > Thanks so much! Now another task, associated with this one... what I > actually ultimately want is to just pull out several fields from the > text file in the zip archive (there is actually only one file).. so, my > goal is the to create a file that looks like: > > t[0], x[0], y[0] > t[1], x[1], y[1] > t[2], x[2], y[2] > t[3], x[3], y[3] > ... > t[:], x[:], y[:] > > Note, these would actually be strings representing the values... and I'm > not trying to do the header yet... :s
You could just write them out as you process them. The same loop that reads the input lines can write the output lines. > > I've tried OUT = [t,x,y ] > but when I write it out, it seems to go through all of t first, then x, > then y... > i'm having a really hard time switching my thinking away from matlab > array processing which I think is part of my problem!! Have you looked at NumPy? It has a native array type. http://numpy.scipy.org/ http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor