[python] importing external ".txt" file in python

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 <module>
import words.txt
ImportError: No module named 'words'

Any sort of help is appreciated.

As you can't import a .txt file, I would suggest to read words this way.

list_ = open("world.txt").read().split()

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.

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  

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()

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.

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()