For this week’s blog post a very unglamorous subject for the scripting beginner: reading and writing basic text files to and from ABAQUS and formatting the data so that appears in tabular form for use elsewhere. Not difficult, but a potential source of headaches for the beginner. There is no difference in the file operations between using Python in the ABAQUS environment and regular Python. Once you have the basics of file I/O then you can start to interrogate your models and