On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:59:47 -0700, koutoo wrote:

> I am working on a loop for my code and was wondering if there is a way
> to limit the number of lines read through?  I'd hate to cut the test
> file in order to run the code in the testing phase.  Can you add a
> value in the parenthesis of the readline() function?
> 
> t = string.readline()  # Limit this somehow?

Do you want to limit how much of *one* line is read or the number of lines!?

The latter can be done with `itertools.islice()`.

Ciao,
        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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