[Q] How to ignore the first line of the text read from a file

youngjin.michael at gmail.com youngjin.michael at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 00:11:26 EDT 2008


Hello,

I am new to Python and have one simple question to which I cannot find
a satisfactory solution.
I want to read text line-by-line from a text file, but want to ignore
only the first line. I know how to do it in Java (Java has been my
primary language for the last couple of years) and following is what I
have in Python, but I don't like it and want to learn the better way
of doing it.

file = open(fileName, 'r')
lineNumber = 0
for line in file:
    if lineNumber == 0:
        lineNumber = lineNumber + 1
    else:
        lineNumber = lineNumber + 1
        print line

Can anyone show me the better of doing this kind of task?

Thanks in advance.




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