[Tutor] Question about reading from a file.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/08/2012 22:51, Brad Dutton wrote:
> I recently discovered how to read from a file but I've having some trouble
> with it. I made a short example program that goes like this:
>
>
>     1. fob = open('c:/python27/a.txt', 'r')
>     2.
>     3. print fob.read()
>     4. print fob.read()
>
> When it runs it returns this:
>
>
>     1. Hey now brown cow
>     2.
>
> It's like it forgets how to read after the first time. This has left me
> very confused. Could you offer any reason why this might be happening?
>
>
>
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Further to Peter Otten's answer you make want to take a look at readline 
or readlines, or check into file iteration.  Depends on what you're 
trying to achieve :)

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.