I have a list of timestamps in the following format:

1/1/2013 3:30

I began to learn python some weeks ago and I have no idea how to split the date and time. Can anyone of you help me?

Output should be on column including

1/1/2013

and one column including

3:30

I think that all you need is str.split ...

>>> s = '1/1/2013 3:30'
>>> s.split()
['1/1/2013', '3:30']

If it's in a list, you can do with a list-comprehension:

>>> lst = ['1/1/2013 3:30', '1/2/2013 3:30']
>>> [s.split() for s in lst]
[['1/1/2013', '3:30'], ['1/2/2013', '3:30']]