How to write every other line in a text file?

Question

inputFile = open(\'original_text.txt\',\'r\')
outputFile = open(\'half_text.txt\',\'w\')

line = inputFile.readline()
count = 0 
for line in inputFile:
    outputFil         


        

Answer 1

This skips the first line because you read it and throw it away before the loop. Delete line 4,

line = inputFile.readline()

Add change the count parity to odd with

if count % 2 == 1:

For a slightly better design, use a boolean that toggles:

count = False
for line in inputFile:
    outputFile.write(line)
    count = not count
    if count:
        print(line)

inputFile.close()
outputFile.close()

I tried running the program on itself:

inputFile = open('this_file.py', 'r')

count = False

    outputFile.write(line)

    if count:



outputFile.close()