bash - Reading a file and storing values into variables in python -

let's have filename (test.txt) following data in it:

aa11 bb11 cc11 dd11 aa22 bb22 cc22 dd22 aa33 bb44 cc44 dd33 

in bash (shell scripting) can following:

cat test.txt | while read b c d  echo "this first column $a " echo "this second column $b " echo "this third column $c " echo "this fifth column $d " done 

how can same python? how can store value of each column in variable , read file line line while storing , manipulating value?

file = open('test.txt') line in file:     fields = line.strip().split()     print fields[0], fields[1], fields[2], fields[3] 

python easy :)

to more specific, split() splits contents of string fields delimited delimiter (by default blank character, e.g. space, tab etc.), , returns array split fields. strip() strips blank characters beginning , end of line. , file in python iterable object when iterated on keyword in, gives lines in file 1 one. more information on these, can @ http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.split , http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip , http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#bltin-file-objects .