How do I print the content of a txt file in Python

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I m very new to programming  obviously  and really advanced computer stuff in general  I ve only have basic computer knowledge  so I decided I wanted to learn more  Thus I m teaching myself  through videos and ebooks  how to program    Anyways  I m working on a piece of code that will open a file  print out the contents on the screen  ask you if you want to edit delete etc the contents  do it  and then re-print out the results and ask you for confirmation to save    I m stuck at the printing the contents of the file  I don t know what command to use to do this  I ve tried typing in several commands previously but here is the latest I ve tried and no the code isn t complete   from sys import argv  script  filename   argv print  Who are you   name   raw input    print  What file are you looking for today   file   raw input    print  file   print  Ok then  here s the file you wanted     print  Would you like to delete the contents  Yes or No     I m trying to write these practice codes to include as much as I ve learned thus far  Also I m working on Ubuntu 13 04 and Python 2 7 4 if that makes any difference  Thanks for any help thus far

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Reading and printing the content of a text file   txt  in Python3 Consider this as the content of text file with the name world txt  Hello World  This is an example of Content of the Text file we are about to read and print using python   First we will open this file by doing this  file  open  quot world txt quot    r    Now we will get the content of file in a variable using  read   like this  content of file  file read    Finally we will just print the content of file variable using print command  print content of file   Output   Hello World  This is an example of Content of the Text file we are about to read and print using python

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How to read and print the content of a txt file  Assume you got a file called file txt that you want to read in a program and the content is this   this is the content of the file with open you can read it and then with a loop you can print it on the screen  Using enconding  utf-8  you avoid some strange convertions of caracters  With strip    you avoid printing an empty line between each  not empty  line   You can read this content  write the following script in notepad   with open  file txt    r   encoding  utf-8   as file      for line in file          print line strip      save it as readfile py for example  in the same folder of the txt file   Then you run it  shift   right click of the mouse and select the prompt from the contextual menu  writing in the prompt   C  examples  python readfile py  You should get this  Play attention to the word  they have to be written just as you see them and to the indentation  It is important in python  Use always the same indentation in each file  4 spaces are good       output   this is the content of the file with open you can read it and then with a loop you can print it on the screen  Using enconding  utf-8  you avoid some strange convertions of caracters  With strip    you avoid printing an empty line between each  not empty  line

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This will give you the contents of a file separated  line-by-line in a list   with open  xyz txt   as f obj      f obj readlines

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to input a file   fin   open filename   filename should be a string type  e g filename    file txt    to output this file you can do   for element in fin      print element    if the elements are a string you d better add this before print   element   element strip     strip   remove notations like this   n

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print    join file  example txt

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Opening a file in python for reading is easy   f   open  example txt    r     To get everything in the file  just use read    file contents   f read     And to print the contents  just do   print  file contents    Don t forget to close the file when you re done   f close

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Just do this    gt  gt  gt  with open  path to file   as f    The with keyword automatically closes the file when you are done         print f read     This will print the file in the terminal

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It s pretty simple   Opening file f  open  sample txt    reading everything in file r f read    reading at particular index r f read 1   print print r    Presenting snapshot from my visual studio IDE

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with open  filename txt    w    as file    for line in file      print line   This with statement automatically opens and closes it for you and you can iterate over the lines of the file with a simple for loop

[python] How do I print the content of a .txt file in Python?

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