Basic file operation questions

[David Douard]

David Douard wrote:

> 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

Just to tell (it's not clear at all in my message): the author of the book
and creator of Gnosis Software is  David Mertz, and the book is published
by Addison Wesley.
Sorry

David