importing external txt file in python

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I am trying to import a text with a list about 10 words   import words txt   That doesn t work     Anyway  Can I import the file without this showing up   Traceback  most recent call last   File  D  python p1 py   line 9  in  lt module gt  import words txt ImportError  No module named  words    Any sort of help is appreciated

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numpy s genfromtxt or loadtxt is what I use   import numpy as np     wordset   np genfromtxt fname  words txt     This got me headed in the right direction and solved my problem

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You can import modules but not text files  If you want to print the content do the following   Open a text file for reading   f   open  words txt    r     Store content in a variable   content   f read     Print content of this file   print content    After you re done close a file   f close

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As you can t import a  txt file  I would suggest to read words this way   list    open  world txt   read   split

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The  import  keyword is for attaching python definitions that are created external to the current python program  So in your case  where you just want to read a file with some text in it  use   text   open  words txt    rb   read

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This answer is modified from infrared s answer at Splitting large text file by a delimiter in Python with open  words txt   as fp      contents   fp read       for entry in contents            do something with entry

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Import gives you access to other modules in your program  You can t decide to import a text file  If you want to read from a file that s in the same directory  you can look at this  Here s another StackOverflow post about it

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