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#! /usr/bin/python
# show_guts.py
# show the first line in a file named file1
#
# you can run this at the UNIX/Linux command-line by typing:
# cs-server> python show_guts.py
#
# if you make me executable, you can leave off the python:
# cs-server> chmod 700 show_guts.py
# cs-server> show_guts.py
#
# (heck, you could import it into a python interpreter session
#    to run it --- *once* during that session, anyway... 8-)
# >>> import show_guts
#
# tries to show the first line in a file named 'file1' in the
#    directory where this script is RUN ... not where it
#    necessarily "resides"

input = open('file1', 'r')
for line in input:
   print "<" + line + ">"

input.close()