On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:59:47 -0700, koutoo wrote: > I am working on a loop for my code and was wondering if there is a way > to limit the number of lines read through? I'd hate to cut the test > file in order to run the code in the testing phase. Can you add a > value in the parenthesis of the readline() function? > > t = string.readline() # Limit this somehow?
Do you want to limit how much of *one* line is read or the number of lines!? The latter can be done with `itertools.islice()`. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list