But, as I have suggested before, you need to look at a line of code, and try and explain what YOU think it is doing. If you have no idea, then you need to go back to the start of the tutorial, and start over, READ the material, understand what's happening before you go on to the next exercise.

I'm trying to do like what u say

i think i know now what do u mean with tape

but in another script i print the file two times with .seek(0)

you know why that ??!

Thank you bro ))

if current line = 2
it print the second line how ???!!!!!!!

and if u know the answer pls tell me

koka282,

It is a bit hard to understand what you are asking for help with. As others have suggested you should go at a pace through the tutorials where you can understand all of the concepts being taught. Do not move on to other lessons until you understand the concepts of the previous lessons. Practice using those concepts in your own programs.

When you call print_a_line for the second time it takes two parameters. The first parameter is current_line which started with a value of 1 and was incremented to a value of 2 right before the second print_a_line call. The second parameter is the file to read. When you call the print_a_line function then you are printing the first parameter (the value 2) and the return from calling the readline method on the python File object passed into parameter 2 (current_file). The readline method will return the next line of the file object when called. Every time you call it you will get the next line in the file.

You can think of the seek(0) like a "reset" that allows you to start reading from the start of the file.

Keep in mind that having us tell you the answers might not be the best way for you to learn the concepts. You might want to try to really try to understand before you ask for help.

Also when asking for help, please try to do the following:

1. Ask specific questions. You are more likely to receive help if you have a specific question that can be quickly answered. Broad questions are difficult to answer and may not receive a swift and/or helpful response.

2. Use complete sentences. I understand that English is not everyone's native language... and I also understand that not everyone will write perfect english on a forum... however putting some care into your sentences will aide in making your posts readable. Also writing as well as possible will help show your maturity and that you are serious in asking for help.

3. Understand that it is not just you who are receiving help. These topics stay around for quite a while. It is very possible that someone in the future may find this thread and have similar questions. Following the previous two pieces of advice can help people in the future as well.

Hi @koka282,

I took a look at the tutorial you're following and the author targets Python 2, which is very well documented. I have two suggestions:

- When you see a new term, look it up in the glossary;

- When you see a new function, look it up in the index.

While asking questions is fine, pay attention to what the author himself states on Exercise 0 of the tutorial:

Finding Things on the Internet

A major part of this book is learning to research programming topics online. I'll tell you to "search for this on the internet," and your job is to use a search engine to find the answer. The reason I have you search instead of just giving you the answer is because I want you to be an independent learner who does not need my book when you're done with it. If you can find the answers to your questions online then you are one step closer to not needing me, and that is my goal.

Thanks to search engines such as Google you can easily find anything I tell you to find. If I say, "search online for the python list functions" then you simply do this:

1. Go to http://google.com/
2. Type: python list functions
3. Read the websites listed to find the best answer.

Before you can be a beginning game developer, you have to get past being a beginning programmer. You should do your best to thoroughly research and try to find the answers yourself before you ask questions in any forum, not because people aren't willing to help you (which they ARE, GameDev.net has a FANTASTIC community, one of the best I've seen since I started using the internet in '96), but because it will be better for you in the long run.

i care about time

i hate take long time to understande

i want to finish it & do my own programs :(

That's wrong i know :(

Thank you all :)

i care about time

i hate take long time to understande

i want to finish it & do my own programs

That's wrong i know

Thank you all

If you hate taking a long time to understand things, then programming will be pretty frustrating to you.

You see, a very important technique for becoming a better programmer is reading code written by other people. But even if you understand every single syntax element and know what each function does, you still have to understand the algorithms and the design of the application. Not to mention things like math and physics.

Can a dedicated, hard-working person get a good grasp of a language like Python in a few months? Sure. But it takes *years* to become a decent software developer who can actually write production-level code.

If you're willing to put a *lot* of time and effort and patience into it, those years will be an incredible journey. But it will still take years. While there are those who claim you can Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours, it would be better to Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.

i care about time

i hate take long time to understande

i want to finish it & do my own programs

That's wrong i know

Thank you all

If you hate taking a long time to understand things, then programming will be pretty frustrating to you.

You see, a very important technique for becoming a better programmer is reading code written by other people. But even if you understand every single syntax element and know what each function does, you still have to understand the algorithms and the design of the application. Not to mention things like math and physics.

Can a dedicated, hard-working person get a good grasp of a language like Python in a few months? Sure. But it takes *years* to become a decent software developer who can actually write production-level code.

If you're willing to put a *lot* of time and effort and patience into it, those years will be an incredible journey. But it will still take years. While there are those who claim you can Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours, it would be better to Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.

U are right bro :)

but i don't hate taking lot of time

but i care i want to learn python &networking&(php)

but u are right i should be Impatient person

Thank you :)

I have never seen a single line of Python in my whole life, but to me it seems like the whole program is defining three of something that may be a macro/definition/function that

1. prints the content of a file (from the current file position, despite the name saying "print_all")

2. seeks to the beginning of the file (rewind)

3. prints the content of a file until it reaches a newline

Googling for "python def" reveals the following page, showing that I am right: it is defining three functions doing those things: https://docs.python.org/release/1.5.1p1/tut/functions.html

Defining a function means that you are telling Python about them, but they don't do anything until you call the functions themselves. That is done in the main part of the program:

1. Opens a file (it is now at the beginning of the file) This returns a handle to the file that you use to do further communication with the file. The input to this function seems to be the input that you provided when you are calling the Python script, and is the name of the file.

2. Calling the function to print the content of the file (which is all of the file since you just opened it, also sort of explaining why the function is named "print_all") You are sending in the handle to the file as a parameter. If you were at a different position in the file, it would not have printed all, but everything from the current file position until the end of the file.

3. Calling the function to rewind the file: that means seek to file position 0, the beginning of the file

4. Calling the function to print one line of the file. This is done three times, while incrementing a counter that is irrelevant to the file itself, but it will print as line 1 <something>, 2 <something>, etc... If you had been at a different file position, it would still be printing line 1.., 2.., 3.., even if it really were lines 10.., 11.., 12.. it was printing.

In between these things, there are print that outputs what is actually happening.

That is about it.

Note: there is probably missing the closing of the file, which I would assume should be there, otherwise you would run out of file handles in the long run if you handled a lot of files this way.

An assignment for you:

Can you think of a way to make print_all() not actually print everything?

Thank you bro :) :) :)

I'll try not to ask too much

?sorry all