> for line in inp.readlines():
If you are now using readlines() instead of readline(), then
a) it is only used once to read all data into a container
b) you can access each element/line by it's relative number
data=open(filename, "r").readlines()
for eachline in data : (not readlines())
so try
print data[0] ## first rec
print data[9] ## 10th rec, etc
you can use
ctr = 0
for eachline in data:
##do something
if ctr > 0:
print "this line is", eachline ## or data[ctr]
print "prev_line = ", data[ctr-1]
ctr += 1
or a slightly different way
stop = len(data)
ctr=0
while ctr < stop:
## do something
if ctr > 0 :
this_line = data[ctr]
prev_line = data[ctr-1]
ctr += 1
Sorry, I don't use file.seek() so can't help there
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