Hi all,

I need to read a tab-delimited file with numeric data in columns, and
then create an array with each of the columns of the file. Although I
am a newbie in Python, I thought it would be as easy (or easier) than
in Matlab, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I haven't found any
way to do that, neither in the tutorials nor the online documentation.
So far, I only know how to do this:

filename = 'ptrace.csv'
reader = csv.reader(open(filename,'r'),dialect='excel-tab')

But I don't know how to load the numeric data into an array that Python
can manipulate. Could somebody help me please? Thank you very much for
your kind attention. Best regards, Peter