Printing lines in a basic text file

[perfringo]

Another possible solution, without itertools:

>>> with open('field.txt', 'r') as quotes:
...    for i, v in enumerate(quotes.readlines()):
...        if i == 4:
...            print(v)
...            break              # if line 5 reached you don't want iterate anymore
...
It should be pretty simple, since you only know the basics so far.

I should be pretty much in line with your original syntax.