Text processing and file creation

[Paddy]

On Sep 5, 5:13 pm, "malibus... at gmail.com" <malibus... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a text source file of about 20.000 lines.>From this file, I like to write the first 5 lines to a new file. Close
>
> that file, grab the next 5 lines write these to a new file... grabbing
> 5 lines and creating new files until processing of all 20.000 lines is
> done.
> Is there an efficient way to do this in Python?
> In advance, thanks for your help.

If its on unix: use split.
If its your homework: show us what you have so far...

- Paddy.