Basic file operation questions

[Caleb Hattingh]

Hi Alex

Assuming you have a file called "data.txt":

***
f = open('data.txt','r')
lines = f.readlines()
f.close()
for line in lines:
     print line
***
Will print each line of the file.

You can make a huge investment by setting 2 or 3 hours aside to go through  
the Python tutorial, which gets installed as part of the documentation.   
That tutorial can get you much of the knowledge you will ever need with  
Python.

thx
Caleb


On 2 Feb 2005 13:27:49 -0800, alex <alexander.dietz at mpi-hd.mpg.de> 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
>