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

[Chris]

On Aug 28, 6:11 am, "youngjin.mich... at gmail.com"
<youngjin.mich... 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.

fileInput = open(filename, 'r')
for lnNum, line in enumerate(fileInput):
    if not lnNum:
        continue
    print line