[Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, youngjin.michael at gmail.com <
youngjin.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find
> a satisfactory solution.
> I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore
> only the first line. I know how to do it in Java (Java has been my
> primary language for the last couple of years) and following is what I
> have in Python, but I don't like it and want to learn the better way
> of doing it.
>
> file = open(fileName, 'r')
> lineNumber = 0
> for line in file:
>    if lineNumber == 0:
>        lineNumber = lineNumber + 1
>    else:
>        lineNumber = lineNumber + 1
>        print line
>
> Can anyone show me the better of doing this kind of task?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --


Files are iterators, and iterators can only go through the object once. Just
call next() before going in the for loop. Also, don't use "file" as a
variable name. It covers up the built-in type.

afile = open(file_name, 'r')
afile.next() #just reads the first line and doesn't do anything with it
for line in afile :
   print line


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