use fileinput to read a specific line

[jo3c]

On Jan 8, 2:08 pm, "Russ P." <Russ.Paie... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Given that the OP is talking 2000 files to be processed, I think I'd
> > recommend explicit open() and close() calls to avoid having lots of I/O
> > structures floating around...
>
> Good point. I didn't think of that. It could also be done as follows:
>
> for fileN in files:
>
>     lnum = 0 # line number
>     input = file(fileN)
>
>     for line in input:
>         lnum += 1
>         if lnum >= 4: break
>
>     input.close()
>
>     # do something with "line"
>
> Six of one or half a dozen of the other, I suppose.

this is what i did using glob

import glob
for files in glob.glob('/*.txt'):
	x = open(files)
	x.readline()
	x.readline()
	x.readline()
	y = x.readline()
	# do something with y
	x.close()