On May 20, 12:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do i jump the first step there? i dont want to iterate the first > row...how do i start at the second?
To simply bypass the first line, do a readline() on the file object before starting to process the file. To filter out particular lines throughout the file, you can either do a check in the for loop and continue if it is true, or create a generator which filters out unwanted content. untested: fd = open(some_file) fi = (x for x in fd if (x.search(':') < 0)) for line in fi: pass It gets a bit more complicated if you want to actually split on sentences, not lines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list