line number var like perl's $.?

[SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk]

> From:	Matthew Wilson [SMTP:mwilson at sarcastic-horse.com]
> Is there an equivalent construct in python?  Or are people doing
> something like this:
> 
> linenum = 0
> for line in open('blah.txt'):
>     linenum += 1
>     print linenum, ". ", line
>   
for linenum, line in enumerate(file('blah.txt')):
    print linenum, line

You'll need Python 2.3 for this, mind.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
--LongSig





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