title: Python: three different delimiters between columns, column to list, quickest way
body: <p>I have data (below) with three different delimiters (the first has a space to the number, the second 3 spaces to the number and the final column a space and then a tab to the number) and I want to be able to generate a list containing sequential values from each column.</p>
  
  <pre><code> 8000.5   16745     0.1257
   8001.0   16745     0.1242
   8001.5   16745     0.1565
   8002.0   16745     0.1595
   8002.5   16745     0.1093
   8003.0   16745     0.1644
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried some stuff with re. after converting to a string to see if I could parse it this way but it seemed a little bit long-winded to convert and I was wondering if anyone knew a quicker way. Ideal output would be</p>
  
  <pre><code>list 1 = [8000.5, 8001.0, 8001.5 ...]
  list 2 = [16745, 16745, 16745, ...]
  list 3 = [0.1257, 0.1242, 0.1565, ...]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>