[Baypiggies] Question about python read data table from a text file

[Tim Hatch]

> the readlines() won't work because I need to access index the number
> of ith row, jth column like x[i, j].

I don't know if there's something stricter implied as "data table" (e.g.
numpy), but how about something like:

f = file('data.txt', 'rb')
x = [map(int, line.split()) for line in f]
f.close()

Then you can print x[i][j]

Tim