>> Hi,

>> I am reading a file with readlines method of the filepointer object
>> returned by the open function. Along with reading the lines, I also
>> need to know which line number of the file is read in the loop
>> everytime.
>> I am sure, the line should have the property/attribute which will say
>> the line number of the file.

>> If there is none, do I have to end up using the counter in the loop?

>> fp = open("file", "r")
>> lineno = 0
>> for line in fp.readlines():
>>        print "line number: " + lineno + ": " + line.rstrip()
>>         lineno = lineno + 1

> The standard Python way is using enumerate()

> for i, line in enumerate(fp):
>     print "line number: " + lineno + ": " + line.rstrip()