Request for feedback on my first Python program

[Ganesan R]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Meyers <Usenet at aristeia.com> writes:

> I'm a C++ programmer who's writing his very first Python program.  

Are you "the" Scott Meyers? Wow. Welcome :-).

The python idiom to iterate through lines in a file is

for line in file:
    do_something()

readlines() will slurp in the whole file into memory. 
    

>         if firstToken[0] != "#": 
>           nonCommentLines.append(lines[i])

The python idiom for this is if lines[i].startswith("#")

So you can do something like 

for line in file:
    if line and line.startswith("#"):
        line.rstrip()      # strip \n and other white space
        ....

Ganesan        

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