Jul 19, 2012 · @thebjorn: perhaps, but the Python 2.1 example you cited were not safe from unclosed file handler in alternate implementations. A Python 2.1 file reading that is safe from …

How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list? I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.

I'm using a for loop to read a file, but I only want to read specific lines, say line #26 and #30. Is there any built-in feature to achieve this?

Sep 24, 2019 · In the commands read(), readline() and readlines(), one difference is of course reading whole file, or a single line, or specified line. But I didn't understand the use/necessity …

Jun 29, 2016 · Please clarify. is the timeit measurement for read, or for readlines? I'd expect the read loop to take longer because it returns a single string, so iterating over it would go …

In Python 2, this is raw_input(prompt). open(0).read() - In Python 3, the builtin function open accepts file descriptors (integers representing operating system IO resources), and 0 is the …

python python-2.7 readlines edited May 31, 2022 at 13:26 mkrieger1 24.2k 7 68 84

Jan 25, 2011 · How can I skip the header row and start reading a file from line2?

Mar 13, 2015 · The call to readline() on a line with no text will return "\n", while at the end of the file it will return "" (an empty string). Another alternative is to call read() to get all of the file's …

Feb 3, 2022 · Wait, I thought the readline () function will read from the start of the line/file, right? So if the first line is "abefgh" (in this case this is also considered a file), I think it will read from …