File open and line count

Script

#!/usr/local/bin/python3.1

fhand = open('famous-indian-players')
count = 0

for line in fhand:
        count = count + 1
print("Line count: ", count)

Execution

Line count:  20

Additional data

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Kapil Dev

Rahul Dravid

B.S. Chandrasekhar

Sachin Tendulkar

Anil Kumble

Gundappa Viswanath

Mohammed Azharuddin

VVS Laxman

Sunil Gavaskar

Dilip Vengsarkar

Zaheer Khan

Harbhajan Singh

Javagal Srinath

Erapalli Prasanna

Virender Sehwag

Bishen Singh Bedi

Syed Kirmani

Erapalli Prasanna

Virat Kohli

Sourav Ganguly

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