Basic file operation questions

[David Douard]

Marcel van den Dungen wrote:

> 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

Or even have a look at the excellent Gnosis book on the subject (and very
much more further, but...):
http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/ which is freely available in text format.

David