Re: Pythonic love

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On 07/03/2016 22:51, Fillmore wrote:
>
> learning Python from Perl here. Want to do things as Pythonicly as
> possible.
>
> I am reading a TSV, but need to skip the first 5 lines. The following
> works, but wonder if there's a more pythonc way to do things. Thanks
>
> ctr = 0
> with open(prfile,mode="rt",encoding='utf-8') as pfile:
>      for line in pfile:
>          ctr += 1
>
>          if ctr < 5:
>              continue
>
>          allVals = line.strip().split("\t")
>          print(allVals)

Something like this, completely untested.

with open(prfile,mode="rt",encoding='utf-8') as pfile:
     lineIter = iter(pfile)
     for _ in range(5):
         next(lineIter)
     for line in lineIter:
          allVals = line.strip().split("\t")
          print(allVals)

I'd also recommend that you use the csv module 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html which can also cope with tsv 
files, it's far more reliable than relying on a simple call to split().

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Pythonic love Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 17:51 -0500
  Re: Pythonic love Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-03-07 22:52 +0000
  Re: Pythonic love sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2016-03-07 15:03 -0800
    Re: Pythonic love Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-07 18:12 -0500
  Re: Pythonic love Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 16:13 -0700
  Re: Pythonic love Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 23:19 +0000
  Re: Pythonic love jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-03-08 14:25 +0100
  Re: Pythonic love justin walters <walters.justin01@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 08:49 -0800
  Re: Pythonic love Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-08 16:55 +0000
  Re: Pythonic love jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-03-08 18:00 +0100
  Re: Pythonic love justin walters <walters.justin01@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 09:17 -0800
    Re: Pythonic love jstitch@invernalia.homelinux.net (Javier Novoa C.) - 2016-03-08 11:27 -0600
      Re: Pythonic love Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-08 21:10 -0500

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