[Tutor] Please Help

[Mats Wichmann]

On 9/7/19 6:22 AM, Sean Frazier wrote:
> I am running a problem in 'Think Python' and was having no issues with:

[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 ''.


what you have written is invalid - you are trying to do an assignment
inside a list specifier, Python's syntax doesn't allow that.

I'm guessing the brackets were just for emphasis for the email, but it
helps when asking questions if you're really precise!!!