Parsing text in python

Question

I've got a text file that is structured like so

1\t        13249\n

2\t        3249\n

3\t        43254\n

etc...

It's a very simple list. I've got the file opened and I can read the lines. I have the following code:

count = 0
for x in open(filename):
    count += 1
return count

What I want to do is to assign the first number of each line to a variable (say xi) and to assign the second number of each line to another variable (yi). The goal is to be able to run some statistics on these numbers.

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No need to reinvent the wheel..

import numpy as np

for xi, yi in np.loadtxt('blah.txt'):
    print(xi)
    print(yi)