Reading Files

The string package contains functions for manipulating strings

string.split() breaks up a string, based on a separating character, into a list of strings

string.atoi() converts a string to an integer
string.atof() converts a string to a floating point number

    import string

    for line in data:
        strvalues = string.split(line)
        for str in strvalues:
            x = string.atoi(str)
            print x