In <3be64ca8-d2e7-493a-b4f3-ef114f581...@googlegroups.com> Rff <rw...@avnera.com> writes:
> Hi, > I have a text file. Now it is required to select every other line of that > text to generate a new text file. I have read through Python grammar, but > still lack the idea at the beginning of the task. Could you tell me some > methods to get this? Initialize a counter variable to zero. (Or one, depending if you want to select odd or even lines.) Each time you read a line from the file, add one to the counter. If the counter is odd, process the line; otherwise use the 'continue' statement to start the loop over and read another line. -- John Gordon Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to gor...@panix.com watch 'House', or a real serial killer to watch 'Dexter'. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
