Jay Loden wrote:
One simple solution is to do:
fle = open(file)
contents = file.readlines()
file.close()
print contents[x] #or store this in a variable, whatever
-Jay
On Friday 21 January 2005 11:22, J. M. Strother wrote:
I have a text file containing 336 records.
I can read and print out the whole file without any problem.
What I want to do is read and print out one record only (chosen at
random). So I need to get to record x, select it, and then print it (or
store it in a variable).
Can anyone tell me now to do this?
I'm new to Python and programming, so sorry if this is very basic. Thanks.
jon
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Whoops! Sorta took the hard way on that one. readlines()
is by all means a much better way of doing this.
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