how to count lines in a file ?

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Am Die, 2002-07-23 um 18.35 schrieb Sean 'Shaleh' Perry:
> 
> On 23-Jul-2002 Shagshag13 wrote:
> >  do = 'wc ' + filename
> >  p = os.popen(do, 'r')
> >  line = p.read()
> >  p.close()
> > 
> 
> read() copies the whole chunk into memory as well so you might as well use
> readlines().  otherwise just use a standard loop and counter.
Well, no matter how large the file is, wc just produces one line.
So read() is ok :)

Andreas