I create list of files, open each file in turn, skip past all the blank lines, and then process the first line that starts with a number (see code below)
filenames=glob.glob("C:/*.txt") for fn in filenames: f =file(fn) line = " " while line[0] not in digits: line = f.next() ProcessLine(line) If a file has only blank lines, the while loop terminates with a StopIteration. How can I just close this file andd skip to the next file if a StopIteration is raised? I tried the following: filenames=glob.glob("C:/*.txt") for fn in filenames: f =file(fn) line = " " while line[0] not in digits: try: line = f.next() except StopIteration: f.close() continue ProcessLine(line) but got only a ValueError: I/O operation on closed file for line = f.next(). It appears that the continue is taking me back to the top of the while loop. How can I get back to the top of the for loop? Thanks in advance Thomas Philips -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list