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copied!<p>Here's a complete guess at some code that might load the type of file this is an example of, but which should be a little robust: </p> <pre><code>f = open("mdata.txt") data_dict = {} section = None data_for_section = "" for line in f: line = line.strip() #remove whitespace at start and end if section != None and (line[0] == "*" or line == "///"): # if we've just finished a section, put whatever we got into the data dict data_dict[section] = [bit for bit in data_for_section.split(",") if bit != ""] if line[0] == "*": # "*" denotes the start of a new section, probably, so remember the name section = line [2:] data_for_section = "" continue data_for_section += line f.close() #got the data, now for some output print "loaded file. Found headings: %s"%(", ".join(data_dict.keys())) for key in data_dict.keys(): if len(data_dict[key])>5: print key, ": array of %i entries"%len(data_dict[key]) else: print key, ": ", data_dict[key] </code></pre> <p>which outputs for your file:</p> <pre>loaded file. Found headings: ABC Names, Data, Starting position ABC Names : ['A-06', 'B-18'] Data : array of 40 entries Starting position : ['-.5000E+01']</pre> <p>of course, you'd probably want to convert the list of data strings to floating point numbers in the case of data and starting position:</p> <pre><code>startingPosition = float(data_dict["Starting position"][0]) data_list_of_floats = map(float, data_dict["Data"]) </code></pre> <p>But as to the ABC Names and how they combine with the rest of the file, we'd need some more information for that.</p>

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