On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:27:27PM +0100, Tor Erik S?nvisen wrote: > Hi > > How can I read the first line of a file and then delete this line, so that > line 2 is line 1 on next read? > > regards > >
I think you can do something like: n=false f=file.open("") #stuff here g=[] for line in f.readlines(): if n: g.append(line) n=true #write g to file if you are on a unix box, then using the standard untils might be a better idea. Pete -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list