[Tutor] Reading from a seperate file

[Joel Goldstick]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:15 PM, myles broomes
<mylesbroomes at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to code a program that retrieves data from a seperate file but
> according to my program, the seperate file is empty when I know it clearly
> isn't. It's a txt file and here are its contents:
>
> 120
> 74
> 57
> 44
> 12
>
> I thought that maybe the problem was the code I had written but even when I
> try and read from the file in an interactive session in the Python Shell, it
> does the same thing. I open it in read mode and assign to a variable like
> so:
>
> scoresFile=open('highScores.txt','r')
>
> But whenever I try to say read from it:
>
> scoresFile.read()
>
> It comes up with a blank string:
>
> ' '
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
>
> Myles Broomes
>
check your spelling.  check that you are in the same directory when
your program runs.


-- 
Joel Goldstick