> 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.
Why don't you read and discard the first line before processing the rest of the file? file = open(filename, 'r') file.readline() for line in file: print line, (It works). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list