On Aug 28, 3:47 am, Santiago Romero <[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.
>
> Why don't you read and discard the first line before processing the
> rest of the file?
>
> file = open(filename, 'r')
> file.readline()
> for line in file: print line,
>
> (It works).
# You could also do the following:
from itertools import islice
f = open(filename)
for each_line in islice(f, 1, None):
print line
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