reading lines 2 at a time

Question

Is there a better way to read lines two at a time from a file in python than:

with open(fn) as f:
    for line in f:
        try:
            line2 = f.next(         


        

Answer 1

for small to medium sized files,

>>> data=open("file").readlines()
>>> for num,line in enumerate(data[::2]):
...  print ''.join(data[num:num+2])