[Tutor] Please Help

[David Lowry-Duda]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 02:22:44PM +0200, Sean Frazier wrote:
> I am running a problem in 'Think Python' and was having no issues with:
> fin = open('words.txt')
> Then when I was working with the reference file, running a function, 
> my IDLE crashed and is no longer able to locate files using [var = 
> open('file.txt')]
> 
> I have tried opening as 'r' and 'w', with no luck.
> 
> Also, sometimes I do not get an error, but when I go to read the list, 
> it is empty ''.

I wonder whether or not you have deleted or emptied the file `file.txt`. 
Have you tried opening it in a text editor to see if it still has 
content?

David Lowry-Duda