对于前5行，简单地做:

N=5
with open("data_file", "r") as file:
    for i in range(N):
       print file.next()

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)

如果你想快速读取第一行并且不关心性能，你可以使用.readlines()返回列表对象，然后对列表进行切片。

例如，前5行:

with open("pathofmyfileandfileandname") as myfile:
    firstNlines=myfile.readlines()[0:5] #put here the interval you want

注意:整个文件是读取的，所以不是最好的从性能的角度来看，但它 是易于使用，快速编写和易于记忆，所以如果你只是想执行 一些一次性计算非常方便

print firstNlines

与其他答案相比，一个优点是可以轻松地选择行范围，例如跳过前10行[10:30]或最后10行[:-10]或只选择偶数行[::2]。

使用list(file_data)将CSV文件对象转换为列表

import csv;
with open('your_csv_file.csv') as file_obj:
    file_data = csv.reader(file_obj);
    file_list = list(file_data)
    for row in file_list[:4]:
        print(row)

N = 10
with open("file.txt", "a") as file:  # the a opens it in append mode
    for i in range(N):
        line = next(file).strip()
        print(line)

没有特定的方法来读取文件对象暴露的行数。

我想最简单的方法是:

lines =[]
with open(file_name) as f:
    lines.extend(f.readline() for i in xrange(N))