On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:00 pm Etay wrote: > Is there some simple way to skip over the lines I don't need, and then > inform Python about the format of the lines with the data I do need > within a loop?
Yes. It's called "programming" :) f = open('some file') for line in f: if some_condition(line): continue # skip the line process(line) f.close() some_condition can be anything you like. You just have to write the code to make it so. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list