Newbie Import two coloums of floating point data into python HOWTO

[Max M]

Andybee wrote:

> Can some one tell me how to import two coloumns of data in a ascii
> text file,into two arrays in python? I cant seem to work it out. The
> data is genereated in matlab and I want to import it into python

What is the data format? Presumably it is a text file, but how is the 
data seperated etc. We need to know more.

regards Max M