Reading in a text file in a set line range

Question

Is it possible to read in from a text file a set line range for example from line 20 to 52?

I am opening the file and reading the file like this:

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Answer 1

You can do two things. You can use enumerate(), and use an if statement:

text_file = open(file_to_save, "r")
lines = []
for index, text in enumerate(text_file):
    if 19 <= index <= 51:
        lines.append(text)

Or instead, you can use readlines() and then slice:

text_file = open(file_to_save, "r")
lines = text_file.readlines()
lines = lines[19:52]