I'm writing python how do I get a specific line from a specific file?

[Poet129]

I know how to open files, write to them, and more but for the life of me I can't figure this out. Please help.

 

[Slottr]

Assuming you know what you're looking for, you'll read the file line by line and set a condition

[Poet129]

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

Assuming you know what you're looking for, you'll read the file line by line and set a condition

Yes but how do I read a specific line instead of the whole thing?

[Slottr]

5 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

Yes but how do I read a specific line instead of the whole thing?

You won't, you'll go by it line by line 

 

You can for loop over it and set a condition depending on the line

[Poet129]

Just now, Slottr said:

You won't, you'll go by it line by line 

 

You can for loop over it and set a condition depending on the line

How do I get it line by line?

[Slottr]

3 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

How do I get it line by line?

For loop

[Poet129]

2 minutes ago, Slottr said:

For loop

Ok but how do I read the file line by line in the for loop? I can't just filecontent.read().

[Sauron]

6 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

How do I get it line by line?

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/read-a-file-line-by-line-in-python/

[Slottr]

Just now, Poet129 said:

Ok but how do I read the file line by line in the for loop? I can't just filecontent.read().

If you already have the file open, you just need to loop through it as in 

 

For i in File: 

 

Do stuff to line 

[Poet129]

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

If you already have the file open, you just need to loop through it as in 

 

For i in File: 

 

Do stuff to line 

Ok but How do i know what line I'm on?

[Slottr]

5 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

Ok but How do i know what line I'm on?

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