Reading specific lines only

Question

I\'m using a for loop to read a file, but I only want to read specific lines, say line #26 and #30. Is there any built-in feature to achieve this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Some of these are lovely, but it can be done much more simply:

start = 0 # some starting index
end = 5000 # some ending index
filename = 'test.txt' # some file we want to use

with open(filename) as fh:
    data = fin.readlines()[start:end]

print(data)

That will use simply list slicing, it loads the whole file, but most systems will minimise memory usage appropriately, it's faster than most of the methods given above, and works on my 10G+ data files. Good luck!