reading specific lines of a file

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.8213.1152993897.27775.python-list at python.org>, Yi Xing
wrote:

> I want to read specific lines of a huge txt file (I know the line #).
> Each line might have different sizes. Is there a convenient and fast
> way of doing this in Python? Thanks.

    file("myfile.txt").readlines()[LineNr]

Convenient, yes. Fast, no. :)