#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess

p = subprocess.Popen(["tail", "-n 3", "passlist"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

output, err = p.communicate()

print  output

这个方法对我很有效

如果你想要一些明显(不需要在手册中查找深奥的东西)不需要导入就可以工作的东西，请尝试/except，并且可以在相当大范围的Python 2上工作。X版本(2.2至2.6):

def headn(file_name, n):
    """Like *x head -N command"""
    result = []
    nlines = 0
    assert n >= 1
    for line in open(file_name):
        result.append(line)
        nlines += 1
        if nlines >= n:
            break
    return result

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    rval = headn(sys.argv[1], int(sys.argv[2]))
    print rval
    print len(rval)

fname = input("Enter file name: ")
num_lines = 0

with open(fname, 'r') as f: #lines count
    for line in f:
        num_lines += 1

num_lines_input = int (input("Enter line numbers: "))

if num_lines_input <= num_lines:
    f = open(fname, "r")
    for x in range(num_lines_input):
        a = f.readline()
        print(a)

else:
    f = open(fname, "r")
    for x in range(num_lines_input):
        a = f.readline()
        print(a)
        print("Don't have", num_lines_input, " lines print as much as you can")


print("Total lines in the text",num_lines)

#!/usr/bin/python

import subprocess

p = subprocess.Popen(["tail", "-n 3", "passlist"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

output, err = p.communicate()

print  output

这个方法对我很有效

Python 3:

with open("datafile") as myfile:
    head = [next(myfile) for x in range(N)]
print(head)

Python 2:

with open("datafile") as myfile:
    head = [next(myfile) for x in xrange(N)]
print head

下面是另一种方法(Python 2和3都是):

from itertools import islice

with open("datafile") as myfile:
    head = list(islice(myfile, N))
print(head)

我所做的就是用熊猫形来称呼N行。我认为性能不是最好的，但是举个例子，如果N=1000:

import pandas as pd
yourfile = pd.read_csv('path/to/your/file.csv',nrows=1000)