New to Python - Easy way to open a text file

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    Max> Hey gang, I'm new to python coding.  I'm trying to find the
    Max> simplest way to open a text file (on the same server) and display
    Max> it's content.

Try the open() builtin function:

    f = open(plainfiles.href, "r")
    print f.read()

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