为了完整起见，这里还有一个选项。

让我们从python文档中的定义开始:

通常包含序列的一部分的对象。slice使用下标符号[]创建，当给出几个数字时，数字之间使用冒号，例如variable_name[1:3:5]。括号(下标)表示法在内部使用切片对象(或在旧版本中使用__getslice__()和__setslice__())。

虽然slice表示法一般不直接适用于迭代器，但itertools包包含一个替换函数:

from itertools import islice

# print the 100th line
with open('the_file') as lines:
    for line in islice(lines, 99, 100):
        print line

# print each third line until 100
with open('the_file') as lines:
    for line in islice(lines, 0, 100, 3):
        print line

该函数的另一个优点是，它直到结束才读取迭代器。所以你可以做更复杂的事情:

with open('the_file') as lines:
    # print the first 100 lines
    for line in islice(lines, 100):
        print line

    # then skip the next 5
    for line in islice(lines, 5):
        pass

    # print the rest
    for line in lines:
        print line

为了回答最初的问题:

# how to read lines #26 and #30
In [365]: list(islice(xrange(1,100), 25, 30, 4))
Out[365]: [26, 30]

文件对象有一个.readlines()方法，它将为您提供文件内容的列表，每个列表项一行。在此之后，您可以使用普通的列表切片技术。

http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.readlines

从某一行读出:

n = 4   # for reading from 5th line
with open("write.txt",'r') as t:
     for i,line in enumerate(t):
         if i >= n:             # i == n-1 for nth line
            print(line)

不要使用阅读线!

我的解决方案是:

with open(filename) as f:
    specify = [26, 30]
    results = list(
        map(lambda line: line[1],
            filter(lambda line: line[0] in specify,
                   enumerate(f))
            )
    )

对6.5G文件进行如下测试:

import time

filename = 'a.txt'
start = time.time()
with open(filename, 'w') as f:
    for i in range(10_000_000):
        f.write(f'{str(i)*100}\n')       
end1 = time.time()

with open(filename) as f:
    specify = [26, 30]
    results = list(
        map(lambda line: line[1],
            filter(lambda line: line[0] in specify,
                   enumerate(f))
            )
    )
end2 = time.time()
print(f'write time: {end1-start}')
print(f'read time: {end2-end1}')
# write time: 14.38945460319519
# read time: 8.380386352539062

读取文件非常快。读取一个100MB的文件需要不到0.1秒(请参阅我的文章用Python读写文件)。因此，你应该完整地阅读它，然后处理单行。

大多数回答这里做的不是错，而是风格不好。打开文件应该总是用with，因为它可以确保文件再次关闭。

所以你应该这样做:

with open("path/to/file.txt") as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
print(lines[26])  # or whatever you want to do with this line
print(lines[30])  # or whatever you want to do with this line

巨大的文件

如果你有一个巨大的文件，内存消耗是一个问题，你可以逐行处理它:

with open("path/to/file.txt") as f:
    for i, line in enumerate(f):
        pass  # process line i

f = open(filename, 'r')
totalLines = len(f.readlines())
f.close()
f = open(filename, 'r')

lineno = 1
while lineno < totalLines:
    line = f.readline()

    if lineno == 26:
        doLine26Commmand(line)

    elif lineno == 30:
        doLine30Commmand(line)

    lineno += 1
f.close()