On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:26:59PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Challenge 2: do it with less code. and more functionality (you can pass -1,-2...): def getline(filename, lineno): l=[''] if lineno: f=open(filename) l+=f.read().split('\n') f.close() return l[len(l)>abs(lineno) and lineno] regards, holger