How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file
Chris
cwitts at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 03:36:53 EDT 2008
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
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