number of lines in a file

[Jeff Shannon]

In article <slrnaa9b09.i04.philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk>, 
philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk says...
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 06:36:14 -0800, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
> >Joseph Youssef
> >> hello, I am nwe to Python and I'm trying to write this 
> >> script but I need it to check how many lines is in 
> >> the file and I don't know how so I'm hoping someone 
> >> could tell me.
> >
> >len(open('/path/and/filename').readlines())
> 
> Alternatively:
> 
> os.system("wc -l %s" % filename)
> 

Except that this is platform-specific for *nix, whereas 
len(file.readlines()) works on all Python platforms.

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Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International