Data Manipulation: Stemming from a inability to select lists
<p>I am very new to python with no real prior programing knowledge. At my current job I am being asked to take data in the form of text from about 500+ files and plot them out. I understand the plotting to a degree, but I cannot seem to figure out how to manipulate the data in a way that it is easy to select specific sections. Currently this is what I have for opening a file:</p>

<pre><code>fp=open("file")
for line in fp:
    words = line.strip().split()
    print words
</code></pre>

<p>The result is it gives me a list for each line of the file, but I can only access the last line made. Does any one know a way that would allow me to <strong><em>choose</em></strong> different variations of lists? Thanks a lot!!</p>
