I want to read a tab separated file into a 2-D array where each line get stored in my 2-D array. I tried open and readline but nothing is working correct for me. Lets say my txt file is something like this :
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
...
so what I want is my 2-D array should store array[0]=[1,2,3,4], array[1]=[2,3,4,5] and so on.
From here
import csv
list(csv.reader(open('text.txt', 'rb'), delimiter='\t'))
If it is numerical data I suggest the following: use numpy like this
import numpy as np
data = np.loadtxt('data.dat')
Optionally you can also specify a data type:
import numpy as np
data = np.loadtxt('data.dat', dtype=np.float64)
If it is not numerical data, I would recommend csv like shown in the answer of CasualDemon:
import csv
list(csv.reader(open('data.dat', 'rb'), delimiter='\t'))