How would one read line (x) from a file?

Another IRC adventure:

00:33 < hendry> exarkun: readlines()[lineno] perhaps?

00:33 < ivan> for small files

00:33 < ivan> you can use a lot less memory with xreadlines and a counter

00:33 < deltab> linecache

00:34 < ivan> hurray

00:34 < hendry> deltab: linecache?

00:34 < ivan> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-linecache.html