readline skips on line

Joachim Kaeber kaeber at gmd.de
Tue Apr 11 05:06:47 EDT 2000


Hi,

try this:

f=open('test.txt', 'r')

while 1:
  line=f.readline()
  if not line:
    break
  print line

print "ready"

(you program uses odd lines for the test, even lines for output...)

Soundwave wrote:
> 
> I got a part of a programm looking like this
> 
> f=open('test.txt', 'r')
> while f.readline()!='':
>     print f.readline()
> print 'ready'
> 
> but when it is runned, it wil print out the lines in the text file, but it
> skips all the the odd line, it only displays line 2,4,6,8,10 and further
> 
> How can I solve this problem ?

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