Pythonic love

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On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 2:51:50 PM UTC-8, 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)

I'd read all the lines at once and then just slice the list.

with open(prfile, mode="rt", encoding="utf-8") as pfile:
    lines = pfile.readlines()[5:]
    for line in lines:
        allVals = line.strip().split("\t")
        print(allVals)

Obviously, this will only work well if your file is a reasonable size, as it will store the entire thing in memory at once.

On a side note, your "with open..." line uses inconsistent quoting.  You have "" on one string, but '' on another.