Slurping All Content of a File into a Variable <Pls ignore, problem with mailing list, eom>

[Wijaya Edward]

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From: python-list-bounces+ewijaya=i2r.a-star.edu.sg at python.org on behalf of Wijaya Edward
Sent: Thu 10/26/2006 11:47 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Slurping All Content of a File into a Variable




Hi,

How can we slurp content of a single file
into one variable?

I tried this:

>>> myfile_content = open('somefile.txt')
>>> print myfile_content,
<open file 'somefile.txt', mode 'r' at 0xb7f532e0>
>>>

But it doesn't print the content of the file.

Regards,
-- Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE


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