reading files

[Johhny]

Hello All,

I am working my way through learning python as a language. I am having
some issues with something that looks right and does not work. I am
trying to get myself more familure with reading files. Based on the
tutorials at www.python.org This "should" work. but im not sure what
the issue is.

===SNIP===
import string

vsftpd=open('vsftpd.conf', 'r')
print vsftpd
vsftpd.read()
vsftpd.readlines()

vsftpd.close()
===SNIP===

When I check the permissions to ensure they are correct I get the
following.

stat vsftpd.conf
  File: `vsftpd.conf'
  Size: 4137            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 131072 regular
file
Device: 802h/2050d      Inode: 51010       Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/  testing)   Gid: ( 1000/
testing)
Access: 2005-12-19 10:21:04.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2005-12-16 12:34:00.000000000 +0000
Change: 2005-12-16 12:34:00.000000000 +0000

When I run the script I get the following:

python reading_file.py
<open file 'vsftpd.conf', mode 'r' at 0xb7d742a8>

Does anyone have any advice on this issue at all. 

Regards,

Johhny.