Re: seek operation in python

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On 04/30/2015 01:06 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
[snip]

> I wrote a module where I have:
>      def get_indexed_message(message_filename, index):
>          """
>          Get index message from a file, where 0 gets the first message
>          """
>
>          return open(expanduser(message_filename), 'r').readlines()[index].rstrip()
>
Very minor nit unrelated to the file closing question:
This would be a good place to give index a default value...

def get_indexed_message(message_filename, index=0):
     ...

      -=- Larry -=-

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seek operation in python siva sankari R <buddingrose11@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 11:08 -0700
  Re: seek operation in python Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 14:17 -0400
    Re: seek operation in python siva sankari R <buddingrose11@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 11:26 -0700
      Re: seek operation in python Billy Earney <billy.earney@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:42 -0500
      Re: seek operation in python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-04-29 21:53 +0100
        Re: seek operation in python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-30 10:19 +1000
  Re: seek operation in python MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-04-29 19:50 +0100
  Re: seek operation in python John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-04-29 18:53 +0000
  Re: seek operation in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 10:33 +1000
    Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 08:27 +0200
      Re: seek operation in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 17:33 +1000
        Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 10:06 +0200
          Re: seek operation in python Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-30 04:31 -0400
            Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 11:06 +0200
              Re: seek operation in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 19:39 +1000
          Re: seek operation in python Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-30 12:38 -0700
            Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 22:50 +0200
              Re: seek operation in python Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-30 19:42 -0700
  Re: seek operation in python Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-30 14:31 +0200

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