Jul 19, 2012 · @thebjorn: perhaps, but the Python 2.1 example you cited were not safe from unclosed file handler in alternate implementations. A Python 2.1 file reading that is safe from unclosed file …

How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list? I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.

Jun 29, 2016 · Please clarify. is the timeit measurement for read, or for readlines? I'd expect the read loop to take longer because it returns a single string, so iterating over it would go character-by …

Sep 24, 2019 · In the commands read(), readline() and readlines(), one difference is of course reading whole file, or a single line, or specified line. But I didn't understand the use/necessity of bracket () in …

Feb 3, 2022 · Wait, I thought the readline () function will read from the start of the line/file, right? So if the first line is "abefgh" (in this case this is also considered a file), I think it will read from the start?

I'm using a for loop to read a file, but I only want to read specific lines, say line #26 and #30. Is there any built-in feature to achieve this?

Dec 25, 2018 · 2 If you are using readline() function, you have to remember that this function only returns a line, so you have to use a loop to go through all of the lines in the text files. In case of using …

Jun 9, 2015 · When using readline() in python is it possible to specify what line to read? When I run the following code, I get lines 1,2,3 but I would like to read lines 2,6,10 def print_a_line(line, f): p...

Apr 7, 2016 · Check out Python File Objects Docs file.readline ( [size]) Read one entire line from the file. A trailing newline character is kept in the string (but may be absent when a file ends with an …

Jan 25, 2011 · How can I skip the header row and start reading a file from line2?