On Aug 28, 6:11 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find > a satisfactory solution. > I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore > only the first line. I know how to do it in Java (Java has been my > primary language for the last couple of years) and following is what I > have in Python, but I don't like it and want to learn the better way > of doing it. > > file = open(fileName, 'r') > lineNumber = 0 > for line in file: > if lineNumber == 0: > lineNumber = lineNumber + 1 > else: > lineNumber = lineNumber + 1 > print line > > Can anyone show me the better of doing this kind of task? > > Thanks in advance.
fileInput = open(filename, 'r') for lnNum, line in enumerate(fileInput): if not lnNum: continue print line -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list