Elliot Temple wrote:
>
> On May 27, 2005, at 12:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I have read in a file and need to get the number of lines.
>>
>> cpn_file = open('Central Part number list.txt')
>> cpn_version = cpn_file.read().split('\n')
>>
>> I want to know the number of elements in cpn_version.
>
> Could you use:
>
> count_lines = len(cpn_file.readlines())
Or if you're worried about reading all of cpn_file into memory at once,
you could try something like:
sum(1 for line in cpn_file)
or in Python 2.3:
sum([1 for line in cpn_file])
STeVe
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