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[Shashwat Anand]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Sukhpal Saini <sunny_ashi1 at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi! I have a problem. I just started python. when I use (open) function,
> is the file supposed to open? Because it doesn't.
>

f = open('filename', 'r')  opens the file in read-only format. There are
others like binary, write, append etc. Check the manual for that.
To read it you need to use read() or readline()
Ex, s = f.read()
Now s will be a string containing the contents of file.


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