> 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.
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