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 = '/path/to/file_to_be_read.txt'
with open(file) as f:
    print f.readlines()[26]
    print f.readlines()[30]

Using the with statement, this opens the file, prints lines 26 and 30, then closes the file. Simple!