On Sep 5, 5:13 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a text source file of about 20.000 lines.>From this file, I like to > write the first 5 lines to a new file. Close > > that file, grab the next 5 lines write these to a new file... grabbing > 5 lines and creating new files until processing of all 20.000 lines is > done. > Is there an efficient way to do this in Python? > In advance, thanks for your help.
If its on unix: use split. If its your homework: show us what you have so far... - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list