Re: [Tutor] readline

2013-07-31 Thread ALAN GAULD
> For some reason I thought that readline counted the \n at the end of > each line and stopped at each one. Clearly, I was mistaken! That is kind of what the default behaviour does. It doesn't  actually count the \n characters but it reads up to and  including it. Alan G. _

Re: [Tutor] readline

2013-07-31 Thread Alan Gauld
On 31/07/13 21:12, Mike McTernan wrote: I am having problems with the readline command in Python 2.7. > script, zodiac = argv > prediction = open(zodiac, "r") This code is very fragile, you should check that zodiac is actually being set by the user and ideally that it is a real file before us

Re: [Tutor] readline

2013-07-31 Thread Dave Angel
On 07/31/2013 04:12 PM, Mike McTernan wrote: I am having problems with the readline command in Python 2.7. I have a text file that has 12 lines of text, each line represents a response to a variable called star_sign that is collected via raw_input. However, instead of printing the line 5 it pri