Re: [Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-28 Thread Ken Starks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find a satisfactory solution. I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore only the first line. I know how to do it in Java (Java has been my primary language for the last

Re: [Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-28 Thread Paul Rubin
Ken Starks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LineList=open(filename,'r').readlines()[1,] You don't want to do that if the file is very large. Also, you meant [1:] rather than [1,] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-28 Thread norseman
Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find a satisfactory solution. I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore only the first

Re: [Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-28 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:45 -0700, norseman wrote: Benjamin Kaplan wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find a satisfactory solution. I want to read text

Re: [Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:11:39 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On 28 Aug 2008 19:32:45 GMT, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:16:45 -0700, norseman wrote: import os file = open(filename, 'r') for line in

[Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find a satisfactory solution. I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore only the first line. I know how to do it in Java (Java has been my primary language for the last couple of years) and

Re: [Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

2008-08-27 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find a satisfactory solution. I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore only the first line. I know how to do it