How to read text file
Reading the entire file at once
print "\nReading the entire file at once."
text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r")
whole_thing = text_file.read()# from w w w . j av a 2 s . c o m
print whole_thing
text_file.close()
Read characters
Tell the stream how many characters (bytes) you want to read.
f = open('somefile.txt', 'r')
print f.read(4)
print f.read()
f.close()
The code above generates the following result.
