how to count lines in a file ?

[Bo M. Maryniuck]

On Tuesday 23 July 2002 19:02, Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> Now, why on earth would you use that monstrosity instead of:
>
>   for line in open(filename):
>       count += 1

Or even:

print len(open('/etc/passwd').readlines())

-- 
Sincerely yours, Bogdan M. Maryniuck

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