Question

I am new to python been using it for graphics but never done it for other problems. My question is how to read this file which is tab or space delimited and has headers in python, i know how to do comma delimted file but not done this on?

ID  YR  MO  DA  YrM  MoM  DaM  
100  2010  2  20  2010  8  2010  30  
110  2010  4  30  2010  9  2010 12     
112  2010  8  20  2010  10  2010  20  

Also is there a way to find the difference of number of days between two dates.

Answer 1

For simple tasks, you can just use the str.split() method. split() takes the delimiter as its parameter, but splits on whitespace if none is given.

>>> lin="a b c d"
>>> lin.split()
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']