[Python-Dev] Use for enumerate() (original) (raw)

holger krekel pyth@devel.trillke.net
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 02:47:19 +0200

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:26:59PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Challenge 2: do it with less code.

and more functionality (you can pass -1,-2...):

def getline(filename, lineno): l=[''] if lineno: f=open(filename) l+=f.read().split('\n') f.close() return l[len(l)>abs(lineno) and lineno]

regards,

holger