jo3c wrote: > i need to read line 4 from a header file
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-linecache.html ~/2delete $ cat data.txt L1 L2 L3 L4 ~/2delete $ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35) [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import linecache >>> linecache.getline("data.txt", 2) 'L2\n' >>> linecache.getline("data.txt", 5) '' >>> linecache.getline("data.txt", 1) 'L1\n' >>> -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours You are not free to read this message, by doing so, you have violated my licence and are required to urinate publicly. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list