title: Going to Python from R, what's the python equivalent of a data frame?
body: <p>I'm familiar with the R data holders like vectors, dataframe, etc. but need to do some text analysis and it seems like python has some good setups for doing so.  My question is where can I find an explanation of how python holds data.  </p>
  
  <p>Specifically I have a data set in a tab-separated file where the text is in the 3rd column and the scoring of the data that I need is in the 4th column.</p>
  
  <pre><code>id1            id2            text                             score
  123            889     "This is the text I need to read..."      88
  234            778     "This is the text I need to read..."      78
  345            667     "This is the text I need to read..."      91
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In R I'd just load it into a data frame named <code>df1</code> and when I wanted to call a column I'd use df1$text or <code>df1[,3]</code>  and if I wanted a specific cell I could use <code>df1[1,3]</code>.  </p>
  
  <p>I am getting a feel for how to read data into python but not how to deal with table like structures. </p>
  
  <p>How would you suggest working with this for a python newbie? </p>