Newbie Needs help!!

[Terry Reedy]

"Rigga" <Rigga at noemail.com> wrote in message
news:h9Chb.60$X53.47 at news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Thanks for your reply, I was under the misunderstanding that I could
read
> the contents of the file and get the total number of lines the file
> contains in one go.  Any pointers to how I can count the lines
manually??

Read the file with lines=readlines() instead of read().  Then
len(lines) is your count.  If you really must read with all=read(),
then
count =  all.count('\n') + (all[-1] != '\n')

Terry J. Reedy