Question

Today, as I tried to put together a script in Octave, I thought, this may be easier in python. Indeed the math operators of lists are a breeze, but loading in the file in the format is not as easy. Then I thought, it probably is, I am just not familiar with the module to do it!

So, I have a typical data file with four columns of numbers. I would like to load each column into separate lists. Is there a module I should use to make this easier?

Answer 1

I don’t know whether this is applicable to your problem, but you might try it with numpy, especially its loadtxt and savetxt functions. You should then use only numpy arrays and avoid Python lists as they are not apt for numerical computations.