One simple solution is to do: fle = open(file) contents = file.readlines() file.close() print contents[x] #or store this in a variable, whatever
-Jay On Friday 21 January 2005 11:22, J. M. Strother wrote: > I have a text file containing 336 records. > I can read and print out the whole file without any problem. > What I want to do is read and print out one record only (chosen at > random). So I need to get to record x, select it, and then print it (or > store it in a variable). > Can anyone tell me now to do this? > > I'm new to Python and programming, so sorry if this is very basic. Thanks. > > jon > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
