number of lines in a file

[Mark McEahern]

f = open(filename)
lines = f.readlines()
f.close()

print "%s has %d lines." % (filename, len(lines))

// mark

-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-admin at python.org [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On
Behalf Of Joseph Youssef
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:26 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: number of lines in a file


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.

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