Skip lines in a file and print remaining lines

Asked Apr 14 '18 at 20:32

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I have a file called patient.txt which has a list of dna sequences. I want to skip the first three line in this data file. Using the code below prints every line.

def read_patient_data(file):
    file=open('patient.txt')
    for aline in file:
        return aline

edited Apr 14 '18 at 23:21

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asked Apr 14 '18 at 20:32

Marti Butlor

Your code simply returns the first line of the file, or the fourth if you skip the first 3. – Daniele Cappuccio Apr 14 '18 at 20:35
I recommend calling `next(file)` as many times as you want, _then_ do your loop – Jean-François Fabre Apr 14 '18 at 20:42

Skip lines in a file and print remaining lines

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