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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dec 25, 2018 · 2 If you are using readline() function, you have to remember that this function only returns a line, so you have to use a loop to go through all of the lines in the text files. In case of …

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?

Jul 10, 2017 · The Python 3 docs only read: readline (size=-1) Read and return one line from the stream. If size is specified, at most size bytes will be read. The line terminator is always b'\n' …

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

Jun 22, 2013 · I read some doc notes on readlines(), where people has claimed that this readlines() reads whole file content into memory and hence generally consumes more memory …