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Syntax

open(path).read()

Description

The open() command opens a file specified by the path parameter. The open() command can be used in two ways: open(path).read(), which returns the file's text content as a string, or, alternatively, open(path).readlines(), which returns a list of text lines.

Returns

the file's text content, as a string

Tutorial

Strings

Example

# Prints the contents of sample.txt as a whole
txt = open("sample.txt").read()
print txt
 
# Prints the contents line per line
txt = open("sample.txt").readlines()
for line in txt:
    print line