Insert Content of a File into a Variable

[Steve Holden]

Wijaya Edward wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> How can we slurp all 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.
>  
Because you haven't read it!

data = open('somefile.txt').read()
print data

regards
  Steve
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