[Python-Dev] Use for enumerate()

[holger krekel]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:26:59PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Challenge 2: do it with less code.

and more functionality (you can pass -1,-2...):

def getline(filename, lineno):
	l=['']
	if lineno:
		f=open(filename)
		l+=f.read().split('\n')
		f.close()
	return l[len(l)>abs(lineno) and lineno]

regards,

	holger