fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ")
if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt"
fh = open(fname)
count = 0
for line in fh:
   line=line.rstrip
   if not line.startswith("From"):continue
   lst=line.split()

   print lst[1]

   count=count+1
print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word"
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