[Tutor] Newbie with question about readfiles()

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, stuart_clemons@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Just wondering how I would print only a given line in a text file.  For
> example, I would like to print the 8th line in this multi-line file, foo.
> txt.
> 
>       in_file = open ("foo.txt", "r")
>       for line in in_file.readlines():
>             print line        # I know this prints all lines
>             print ????        # How do I print line 8 only ???

in_file = open("foo.txt", "r")
lines = in_file.readlines()  # lines is a list with all lines now
print lines[7]               # print the 8th line (Python counts from 0)

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Remco Gerlich