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

[Santiago Romero]

> 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.

 Why don't you read and discard the first line before processing the
rest of the file?

 file = open(filename, 'r')
 file.readline()
 for line in file: print line,

 (It works).