Is it possible to read from a certain line onwards? In the example I cited below, I had want to read and use only from Line04 onwards
with open (fileList[0], 'rt') as filehandle:
for line in filehandle:
print line
# Output:
# This is a testing file
#
# v 1.05
# v -2.15
You can just skip over the first four lines, using enumerate to count them:
with open(fileList[0], 'rt') as filehandle:
for line_num, line in enumerate(filehandle):
if line_num < 4:
continue
print line
# and do anything else
seek, but that isn't going to work.This should work:
with open('your_file', 'rt') as filehandle:
lines = filehandle.readlines()[4:]
for line in lines:
print line
#do something
lineno = 0
for line in filehandle:
lineno = lineno + 1
if(lineno > 4):
print line
