[Tutor] How to skip to next line in for loop

[Brain Stormer]

You are correct.  It is missing the ":" and it will print "3"

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:18 AM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brain Stormer wrote:
>
> > Well,
> > I was somewhat confused with all of the answers so I decided to go with
> >  my/following method.  Kent's method has 4 fewer lines of code than mine and
> > cleaner.  Please correct me if I am fundamentally wrong.
> >
> > f=open('file.txt',r)
> >
> > for line in f.read().split():
> >    if line == "3"
> >          position = True
> >    else:
> >          position = False
> >    if position == True
> >          print line
> >          position = False
> > f.close()
> >
> >  Yikes! That won't compile (missing : at end of if statements). After
> correcting, will print 3.
>
> How about this if you want less lines of code:
>
> f = open('file.txt',r).readlines()
> print f[[x+1 for x,line in enumerate(f) if line.rstrip() == "3"][0]]
>
>
> --
> Bob Gailer
> 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC
>
>
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