readline() and readlines()

[rpaskudniak]

iFunKtion and metulburr,

Thanks for the explanations. Indeed, I have changed to code to use a WHILE loop. Here is the new code:

1 #!/usr/bin/python
2 # files1.py - first program to play with files
3 #
4 filename = "justsome.txt"
5
6 inp = open(filename, "r")
7 lc = 0
8
9 one_line = "Anything, just not null :-)"
10 #for one_line in inp.readline() :
11 while one_line :
12   one_line = inp.readline()
13   one_line = one_line.rstrip('\n')
14   ll = len(one_line)
15   if ll < 1 :
16     break
17   lc += 1 # Not null: Bump up lines-read count
18   print "Input line[%d] is %d chars: %s" % (lc, ll, one_line)
19
20 # Done printing...
21 #
22 inp.close

And voila! the output matches exactly what the readlines() version produced.  Actually, slightly better, since the new version skips the final blank line that I got from readlines().

So now I can mark this thread as "Answered" but I don't see that option. Thanks SO much, folks, for clarifying a confusing basic issue!