Beginner question : skips every second line in file when using readline()

[Ben Finney]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:33:49 -0700, peter leonard wrote:
> while dataobject.readline() !="":

Reads the next line, compares it to the empty string, then throws it
away.

>         line = dataobject.readline()

Reads the next line and assigns it to the 'line' variable.

>         print line

Prints out the 'line' variable.

I think you can see where the problem is.

Possibly you want something like this:

    while( True ):
        line = dataobject.readline()
        if( line == "" ):
            break
        print line

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