On Jul 25, 3:44 pm, "Daniel Nogradi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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(). HTH, George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
