On Aug 28, 11:53 am, Ken Starks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find > > a satisfactory solution. > > 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? > > > Thanks in advance. > > LineList=open(filename,'r').readlines()[1,] > for line in Linelist: > blah blah
That's bad practice as you load the entire file in memory first as well as it will result in a type error (should be '.readlines()[1:]') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
