> > A very simple question: I currently use a cumbersome-looking way of > > getting the first, second, etc. line of a text file: > > > > for i, line in enumerate( open( textfile ) ): > > if i == 0: > > print 'First line is: ' + line > > elif i == 1: > > print 'Second line is: ' + line > > ....... > > ....... > > > > I thought about f = open( textfile ) and then f[0], f[1], etc but that > > throws a TypeError: 'file' object is unsubscriptable. > > > > Is there a simpler way? > > If all you need is sequential access, you can use the next() method of > the file object: > > nextline = open(textfile).next > print 'First line is: %r' % nextline() > print 'Second line is: %r' % nextline() > ... > > For random access, the easiest way is to slurp all the file in a list > using file.readlines().
Thanks! This looks the best, I only need the first couple of lines sequentially so don't need to read in the whole file ever. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
