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

File objects have a .readlines() method which will give you a list of the contents of the file, one line per list item. After that, you can just use normal list slicing techniques.

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.readlines