Pythonic method to sum all the odd-numbered lines in a file

Question

I\'m learning Python for a programming placement test I have to take for grad school, and this is literally the first little script I threw together to get a feel for it. My bac

Answer 1

How about something like this, fairly Pythonic imho:

with open('test.txt') as fh:
    for i, line in enumerate(fh):
        if i % 2:
            nums = map(int, line.split())
            print 'Sample size: %d, Results: %d' % (len(nums), sum(nums))
        elif line == '0':
            print 'End of experiment'