title: Print all lines in datafile without if condition
body: <pre><code>file = open("datafile1.txt", "rU")
  for line in file:
      line = line.strip()
      print line
      for element in line:
           line = 2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is what i have so far, and the output looks like from a simple datafile i created:</p>
  
  <pre><code>blind
  element
  baker
  enjoy
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which corresponds to what is entered into the datafile1 that i want to read.
  I am trying to read this datafile1 and print all the lines, but the first one without a if condition.  I was thinking of slicing [2:] in the for loop, but i can't figure out how to just print the  element,baker, and enjoy "without print the first line which is blind".</p>
  
  <p>Can you please give me some suggestion how to read and print just those characters without using if statement.  The only way i know of would be using a Try and except to replace the if statement and read only the last three lines of the file.   Any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>