[Tutor] Reading from a seperate file

[Alan Gauld]

On 25/10/12 19:15, myles broomes wrote:

> but according to my program, the seperate file is empty when I know it
> clearly isn't.

OK, So show us the program! Otherwise we are just guessing.


> 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:
>
> ' '

How do you get a blank string?
Calling read() without assigning it to a variable means the content of 
your file will be lost. But then what are you looking at to say its a 
blank string?

We need to see the actual code you are running not just random fragments.

> Can anyone help me?

Sure, but you've got to help us first. Show us your code.
And if you get an error message show us that too - all of it.
And for good measure tell us the Python version and the OS.


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Alan G
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