On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 2:51:50 PM UTC-8, Fillmore wrote: > learning Python from Perl here. Want to do things as Pythonicly as possible. > > I am reading a TSV, but need to skip the first 5 lines. The following > works, but wonder if there's a more pythonc way to do things. Thanks > > ctr = 0 > with open(prfile,mode="rt",encoding='utf-8') as pfile: > for line in pfile: > ctr += 1 > > if ctr < 5: > continue > > allVals = line.strip().split("\t") > print(allVals)
I'd read all the lines at once and then just slice the list. with open(prfile, mode="rt", encoding="utf-8") as pfile: lines = pfile.readlines()[5:] for line in lines: allVals = line.strip().split("\t") print(allVals) Obviously, this will only work well if your file is a reasonable size, as it will store the entire thing in memory at once. On a side note, your "with open..." line uses inconsistent quoting. You have "" on one string, but '' on another. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list