Newby Question for reading a file

[alex23]

On Feb 20, 5:38 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Yes you can get portions of the line by slicing:
>
> for line in open("infile"):
>     if line[8:18] != line[18:28]:
>             print line,

You can also name the slices, which makes the code more clear (IMO):

endda = slice(8,18)
begda = slice(18,28)
for line in open("infile"):
    if line[endda] != line[begda]:
            print line,

> Or you can use the struct module:

But this is the approach I'd take.