number of lines in a file

[phil hunt]

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)


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