fname = raw_input("Enter file name: ") if len(fname) < 1 : fname = "mbox-short.txt" fh = open(fname) count = 0 for line in fh: line=line.rstrip if not line.startswith("From"):continue lst=line.split() print lst[1] count=count+1 print "There were", count, "lines in the file with From as the first word"