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

If your large text file file is strictly well-structured (meaning every line has the same length l), you could use for n-th line

with open(file) as f:
    f.seek(n*l)
    line = f.readline() 
    last_pos = f.tell()

Disclaimer This does only work for files with the same length!