"Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A very simple question: I currently use a cumbersome-looking way of > getting the first, second, etc. line of a text file: > > for i, line in enumerate( open( textfile ) ): > if i == 0: > print 'First line is: ' + line > elif i == 1: > print 'Second line is: ' + line > ....... > .......
from itertools import islice first_five_lines = list(islice(open(textfile), 5)) print 'first line is', first_five_lines[0] print 'second line is', first_five_lines[1] ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
