Parsing Text File Using Python

Project Summary: Parse a large text file for certain groups of Data. Things I would like to extract: • Lines that contain a certain range of numbers in one of the columns • Columns that contain a specific header • Lines that contain specific terms • Selection criteria will be given an input text I would like to be able to input my selection criteria into another text file that can be read into the code. o I am picturing a text file where I have written out questions and people can type in the specific selection criteria following each question and this entire text file can be input into the code. I would also like to be able to perform some mathematical functions such as averaging certain columns together along with the standard deviations. The code should be written in more of a universal manner and not entirely specific to the sample text file so that I can continue to parse the parsed data even more if desired. Finally, I would like the code to use extensive Python and annotate the code properly so that I am able to follow the code. (I am trying to learn Python myself)