How do you limit the # of lines Read?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:59:47 -0700, koutoo wrote:

> I am working on a loop for my code and was wondering if there is a way
> to limit the number of lines read through?  I'd hate to cut the test
> file in order to run the code in the testing phase.  Can you add a
> value in the parenthesis of the readline() function?
> 
> t = string.readline()  # Limit this somehow?

Do you want to limit how much of *one* line is read or the number of lines!?

The latter can be done with `itertools.islice()`.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch