How do you limit the # of lines Read?

[James Matthews]

for i in range(<number of times you want to read a line>):
   line = file.readline()

On 9/18/07, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 19, 6:59 am, kou... at hotmail.com wrote:
> > I am working on a loop for my code and was wondering if there is a way
> > to limit the number of lines read through?  I'd hate to cut the test
> > file in order to run the code in the testing phase.  Can you add a
> > value in the parenthesis of the readline() function?
> >
> > t = string.readline()  # Limit this somehow?
>
> *STRING*.readline() ????
>
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