Help with reading file in windows.

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth anandpillai:
  [...]
>   The second solution also had a problem in the 2nd line
> 
>    => reading_file = file(asking).read()
> 
>     You are trying to call read() on something which is
>      not a 'file' object. There is no method  'file()' in python
>      which takes a string as argument to open a file.

There is such a callable, actually, since 2.2.  (A class, as it
happens.)

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