How to read data from a text file in Python?

You could try to read the file line by line, then split each line by spaces and have each element in the split list be associated to a certain column name.

You can use something like that to start:

with open('filename') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

for line in lines:
    l = line.split(" ");
    for el in l:
        #do stuff

Read and use split(' ') to split it into columns. Maybe assign it to a dataframe for easier access.

file1 = open("myfile.txt","r+") 
print ("Output of Read function is")
lines = file1.readlines() 
print("Col1  Col2  ....")
for line in lines:
  temp = line.split(' ')
  print(temp[0],temp[1])

Try read_csv from pandas (documentation) and define your delimiter with space, like this:

data = pandas.read_csv(delimiter: ' ')

Suppose the text file is temp.txt and the separator between your columns is space, you can then use read_csv function to read such file:

import pandas as pd
names = ['col1', 'col2', 'col3'] # define your column names here, the lentgh of the list should match the actual number of columns you load into the dataframe
df = pd.read_csv('temp.txt', delimiter=' ', header=None, names=names)  # use header=None to indicate that your file has no header