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

use next to skip the next line. You may need to watch for a StopIteration error on the call to next(fh) if you have odd lines.

outputFile = open('half_text.txt','w')

with open('original_text.txt') as fh:
    for line1 in fh:
        outputFile.write(line1)
        try:
            next(fh)
        except StopIteration:
            pass

outputFile.close()