maximum value in a column of file

[Scott David Daniels]

maurizio wrote:
> thank you for your answer
> actually i've to do some statistics (maximum,minimum,mean,standard 
> deviation,....) of a file of data in which each column is a particular 
> type of data. (the file is a tab separated value).
> I was trying to do this by using python (usually i work with fortran or 
> bash, but i'm learning python), that the reason why i tried to use numpy.
> 
Look into the csv module (comma separated values).  It also can deal
with tab separated values.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org