file.getline()/cout problem

[Grant Edwards]

In article <3cae0463.46737479 at mammoth.usenet-access.com>, A. Jones wrote:

> In trying to understand how file access might work in my instance, I
> wrote a small test program with the expectation that it would print
> off 35 lines of arbitrarily length of a file.
[...]
> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <fstream.h>
> 
> ifstream testfile("QOD.qdb");
[...]

Perhaps my Python installation is broken, but this program
won't run at all!

$ python
Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 13 2001, 19:37:40) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> #include <iostream.h>
... #include <string.h>
... #include <fstream.h>
... 
>>> ifstream testfile("QOD.qdb");
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    ifstream testfile("QOD.qdb");
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> 



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