我更喜欢这种方法，因为它更通用，即你可以在文件上使用它，在f.r edlines()的结果上，在StringIO对象上，无论什么:

def read_specific_lines(file, lines_to_read):
   """file is any iterable; lines_to_read is an iterable containing int values"""
   lines = set(lines_to_read)
   last = max(lines)
   for n, line in enumerate(file):
      if n + 1 in lines:
          yield line
      if n + 1 > last:
          return

>>> with open(r'c:\temp\words.txt') as f:
        [s for s in read_specific_lines(f, [1, 2, 3, 1000])]
['A\n', 'a\n', 'aa\n', 'accordant\n']

如果要读取的文件很大，并且你不想一次在内存中读取整个文件:

fp = open("file")
for i, line in enumerate(fp):
    if i == 25:
        # 26th line
    elif i == 29:
        # 30th line
    elif i > 29:
        break
fp.close()

注意第n行i == n-1。

在Python 2.6或更高版本中:

with open("file") as fp:
    for i, line in enumerate(fp):
        if i == 25:
            # 26th line
        elif i == 29:
            # 30th line
        elif i > 29:
            break

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()

这是我的2美分，不管它是否值得;)

def indexLines(filename, lines=[2,4,6,8,10,12,3,5,7,1]):
    fp   = open(filename, "r")
    src  = fp.readlines()
    data = [(index, line) for index, line in enumerate(src) if index in lines]
    fp.close()
    return data


# Usage below
filename = "C:\\Your\\Path\\And\\Filename.txt"
for line in indexLines(filename): # using default list, specify your own list of lines otherwise
    print "Line: %s\nData: %s\n" % (line[0], line[1])

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)

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