read file problem

[Fuzzyman]

Ernesto wrote:
> I'm just want to read in the contents of a (text) file.  The text file
> is filled with semiColon delimited floating point strings...
>
> 0.456;1.265;99.742;...
>
> For some reason, I can't get the contents back when I call file.read()
>  Here's my code.
>
> filePath = "C:\\folder\\myFile.txt
> fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r').read();
> print fileHandle.read()
>
> # This prints nothing when it should print the above values....  Thanks
> for the help

Try adding a 'print fileHandle' in there...

That line should be :

fileHandle = open(filePath, 'r')

The '.read()' part returns the full file... so further reads have no
effect.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
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