On May 20, 7:34 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?
import itertools
mov = open(afile)
for line in itertools.islice(mov, 1, None):
do y
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