Question

I’m trying to read the source code from a website 100 lines at a time

For example:

self.code = urllib.request.urlopen(uri)

#Get 100 first lines
self.lines = self.getLines()

...

#Get 100 next lines
self.lines = self.getLines()

My getLines code is like this:

def getLines(self):
    res = []
    i = 0

    while i < 100:
        res.append(str(self.code.readline()))
        i+=1

return res

But the problem is that getLines() always returns the first 100 lines of the code.

I’ve seen some solutions with next() or tell() and seek(), but it seems that those functions are not implemented in HTTPResponse class.

Answer 1

according to the documentation urllib.request.urlopen(uri) returns a file like object, so you should be able to do:

from itertools import islice

def getLines(self)
    res = []
    for line in islice(self.code,100): 
        res.append(line)
    return res

there’s more information on islice in the itertools documentation. Using iterators will avoid the while loop and manual increments.

If you absolutely must use readline(), it’s advisable to use a for loop, i.e.

for i in xrange(100): 
    ...