On May 20, 1:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have a big file with sentences, the first file of each sentence > contains a colon(:) somewher eon that line > i want to jump past that sentence. > > if all(x != ':' for x in line): > > this way i can check but i dont want to check for every line in the > whole file, quite unnecessary when i only need to > chekc the first line. > > so the question is, when dealign with iterators like: > mov = open(afile) > for line in mov: > do y > > how do i jump the first step there? i dont want to iterate the first > row...how do i start at the second?
How about this? mov = open(afile) first = mov.next() # check first for ':' and do whatever you need to do # including the 'y' processing from below if required for line in mov: do y ... Jay Graves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list