query regarding file handling.

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:59 AM, ankita dutta <ankita.dutta09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have a file of 3x3 matrix of decimal numbers(tab separated). like this :
>
> 0.02    0.38    0.01
> 0.04    0.32    0.00
> 0.03    0.40    0.02
>
> now i want to read 1 row and get the sum of a particular row. but when i am
> trying with the following code, i am getting errors :

Try using the `csv` module, which despite its name, works on the
tab-delimited variant of the format as well:
http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html

Cheers,
Chris
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