On Dec 20, 8:13 pm, "Russell Blau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Horacius ReX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi, sorry but after looking for information, I still did not get how, > > when reading a text file in python, can one jump to a concrete line > > and then read the different data (separated by spaces). In each line > > there is different number of columns so sometimes i get kind of "index > > out" error. Is there a better way to read the different data on each > > row and avoiding to know the exact number of columns ? > > Have you considered using the file.readlines() method? > > Russ
.readlines() will hog some resources on large files. file.read().splitlines()[ line_to_seek ] might be the fastest way for small files, but also will swell for larger ones. Also, one line way to get what you want: [a for (i,a) in enumerate(input_file) if i == line_to_seek] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
