Reading the first line of a file (in a zipfile)

[mike.aldrich at gmail.com]

Hi folks,
I am trying to read the first occurence of non-whitespace in a file,
within a zipfile. Here is my code:

zipnames = glob.glob("<search_dir>*")
for zipname in zipnames:
  z = zipfile.ZipFile(zipname, "r")
  for filename in z.namelist():
    count = len(z.read(filename).split('\n'))
    if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, "*AUDIT*"):
      test = filename.split(' ')
      print 'File:', test[0],
      bytes = z.read(filename)
      print 'has', len(bytes), 'bytes'
      print 'and', count, 'lines'

The first line in the file I am examining will be a number followed by
more whitespace. Looks like I cannot split by whitespace?