Pythonic love

[Rob Gaddi]

Fillmore wrote:

>
> learning Python from Perl here. Want to do things as Pythonicly as possible.
>
> I am reading a TSV, but need to skip the first 5 lines. The following 
> works, but wonder if there's a more pythonc way to do things. Thanks
>
> ctr = 0
> with open(prfile,mode="rt",encoding='utf-8') as pfile:
>      for line in pfile:
>          ctr += 1
>
>          if ctr < 5:
>              continue
>
>          allVals = line.strip().split("\t")
>          print(allVals)

for lineno, line in enumerate(pfile, start=1):

will save you maintaining your own counter.  But other than that, nah,
that's pretty much the approach you're looking for.

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