On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 on this approach. Clear and obvious and not reliant on any library > modules other than sys. > > itertools, what WAS I thinking? :)
maybe: import sys from itertools import islice print [v for v in islice((line for line in sys.stdin), 0, 5)] ? -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
