Read first N lines of a fileΒΆ

Read first N lines of a file.
def file_read_from_head(fname, N):

    from itertools import islice

    with open(fname) as f:
        for line in islice(f, N):
            print(line)

# test
file_read_from_head('test.txt', 2)

Output:

Welcome to w3resource.com.
Append this text.Append this text.Append this text.