Jul 19, 2012 · @thebjorn: perhaps, but the Python 2.1 example you cited were not safe from unclosed file handler in alternate implementations. A Python 2.1 file reading that is safe from unclosed file …

Dec 25, 2018 · 2 If you are using readline() function, you have to remember that this function only returns a line, so you have to use a loop to go through all of the lines in the text files. In case of using …

Feb 3, 2022 · Wait, I thought the readline () function will read from the start of the line/file, right? So if the first line is "abefgh" (in this case this is also considered a file), I think it will read from the start?

Sep 24, 2019 · In the commands read(), readline() and readlines(), one difference is of course reading whole file, or a single line, or specified line. But I didn't understand the use/necessity of bracket () in …

How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list? I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.

Question 1: How does the readline () know which line of text to read, given that successive calls to readline () read the text line by line? When you open a file in python, it creates a file object.

Jun 29, 2016 · Please clarify. is the timeit measurement for read, or for readlines? I'd expect the read loop to take longer because it returns a single string, so iterating over it would go character-by …

Jun 9, 2015 · When using readline () in python is it possible to specify what line to read? When I run the following code, I get lines 1,2,3 but I would like to read lines 2,6,10

I'm using a for loop to read a file, but I only want to read specific lines, say line #26 and #30. Is there any built-in feature to achieve this?

In python, is there a built-in way to do a readline() on string? I have a large chunk of data and want to strip off just the first couple lines w/o doing split() on the whole string. Hypothetical