I have a set of data that looks like this

201206040210 -3461.00000000 -8134.00000000 -4514.00000000 -4394.00000000 0 201206040211 -3580.00000000 -7967.00000000 -4614.00000000 -7876.00000000 0 201206040212 -3031.00000000 -9989.00000000 -9989.00000000 -3419.00000000 0 201206040213 -1199.00000000 -6961.00000000 -3798.00000000 -5822.00000000 0 201206040214 -2940.00000000 -5524.00000000 -5492.00000000 -3394.00000000 0

I want to take the second to last column and find the min, max, and average. Im a little confused on how to use split when the columns are delimited by a space and -. i Figure once i do that i can use min() and max function. I have written a shell script to do the same here

#!/bin/ksh
awk '{print substr($5,2);}' data' > /data1
sort -n data1 > data2
tail -1 data2
head -1 data2
awk '{sum+=$1} END {print "average = ",sum/NR}' data2

Im just not sure how to do this in python. Thanks