Basic file operation questions

[Marcel van den Dungen]

alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a beginner with python and here is my first question:
> How can I read the contents of a file using a loop or something? I open
> the file with file=open(filename, 'r') and what to do then? Can I use
> something like
> 
> for xxx in file:
>    ....
> 
> 
> Thanks for help
> Alex
> 
take a look at this:
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/File-Management-in-Python/

HTH,
-- Marcel