On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:11:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore
> only the first line. I know how to do it in Java (Java has been my
> primary language for the last couple of years) and following is what I
> have in Python, but I don't like it and want to learn the better way of
> doing it.
>
> file = open(fileName, 'r')
> lineNumber = 0
> for line in file:
> if lineNumber == 0:
> lineNumber = lineNumber + 1
> else:
> lineNumber = lineNumber + 1
> print line
>
> Can anyone show me the better of doing this kind of task?
input_file = open(filename)
lines = iter(input_file)
lines.next() # Skip line.
for line in lines:
print line
input_file.close()
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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