eight02645999 at yahoo.com wrote: > hi, > how can i skip printing the last line using loops (for /while) > > eg > > for line in open("file): > print line. > > I want to skip printing last line of the file.thanks > afile = open(filename) xlines = afile.xreadlines() aline = xlines.next for nextline in xlines: print aline aline = nextline James