使用Python进行数据分析-读取文本文件

Question

I have a text file structure like:

X   Y   Home
X   Y   School

X and Y are times and the last column is a location. How can I use python to assess the X and Y element where the 3rd Column is Home?

Note: I have already opened the text file. If you feel I am asking to much, I would appreciate a link to a place that tells how to do something like this. Also, X and Y are not numbers they are strings: ex. 4:30 AM

Answer 1

Assuming the contents of the file have been dumped to a variable, one way is to parse every line like so:

for line in file_content:
     columns = line.split()
     x_1 = columns[0]
     x_2 = columns[1]
     home = columns[2]
     ...
     ...

Basically the split distinguishes X, Y, Home and School and places them into a list. So ultimately, columns is a list containing [X, Y, Home] regardless of the type of data.