Re: [Tutor] A Really Quick Question

2005-10-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Steve Haley wrote: > I am running Python 2.1 which ships with ArcView 9.1. I am going > through the 2.1 tutorial and came across readlines(). > > The tutorial seems to be telling me that ‘f.readlines(2) should read out > 2 bytes plus what is needed to complete the current line. Instead, it >

Re: [Tutor] A Really Quick Question

2005-10-22 Thread Todd Maynard
Hi Steve, Here is the python documentation. Hopefully it is a *little* clearer http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html *** readlines *** readlines( [sizehint]) Read until EOF using readline() and return a list containing the lines thus read. If the optional sizehint argument

[Tutor] A Really Quick Question

2005-10-22 Thread Steve Haley
Folks,   I am running Python 2.1 which ships with ArcView 9.1.  I am going through the 2.1 tutorial and came across readlines().  Simply put it doesn’t seem to be behaving as the tutorial describes.  Specifically, I created a small text file as shown below:   f=open("c:/python21/sfh_mod