#!/usr/bin/python ra = open("ref_alt3.txt").readlines() var = open("toico4.txt").readlines() header = var[0] samples = header.split() n_samples = len(samples) n_samples = (n_samples-2)/6 w = open("out.txt","w") ra_list = [] for i in range(0,len(ra)): ra_line = ra[i] ra_info = ra_line.split() r = int(ra_info[2]) a = int(ra_info[3]) var_line = var[i] var_info = var_line.split() res = [] for j in range(0,n_samples): r_num = 2+(j*6)+r a_num = 2+(j*6)+a res.append(var_info[r_num]) res.append(var_info[a_num]) w.write("%s\t%s\n" % ("\t".join(ra_info[0:2]),"\t".join(res))) w.close()