Newbie: Reading textfiles

[Stidolph, David]

Try this:

f = open(filename,"rt")
f.seek(0,2) #seek to end
size = f.tell()
f.seek(0,0) #seek back to beginning
while f.tell() < size:
  line = f.readline()
  # do something with line
f.close()

Remember, there will be a cr or cr/lf at the end of each line.

Good luck.

David Stidolph
Origin

-----Original Message-----
From: Lutz.Schroeer at altavista.net [mailto:Lutz.Schroeer at altavista.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 11:18 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Newbie: Reading textfiles


Hi,

after looking for a"clever" solution for reading a text file line by line 
from the beginning to the end for the whole day, I have to ask this 
ridiculous newbie question:

How do I read a textfile line by line and catch the eof?

Latz
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