How to Append data to a combobox

Question

I need to insert data to a combobox so i do an append as defined in this lines :

fd = open(files,'rb')
data=fd.readlines()

for i in data[]:
    item=i.strip()
    if item is not None:
       combobox.Append(item)
fd.close

Even data insert the selection still void please can you tell me how to set a selection a value from the items read. as like as selection contain first element

Answer 1

combobox.SetSelection(0)  # select first item