It’s an extra step, but it beats re-typing 500 rows of data. What's your favorite "dinosaur" file format you still have to deal with?
Page numbers and headers from the original QRP may repeat every few rows in your spreadsheet. Automation and Batch Conversion qrp to excel
colspecs = [(0,10), (10,30), (30,40), (40,50)] # adjust as needed df = pd.read_fwf('qrp_report.txt', colspecs=colspecs, skiprows=3) It’s an extra step, but it beats re-typing