Slurping All Content of a File into a Variable

[Wijaya Edward]

Hi,

How can we slurp content of a single file
into one variable?

I tried this:

>>myfile_conten t = open('somefile. txt')
>>print myfile_content,

<open file 'somefile.txt', mode 'r' at 0xb7f532e0>

>>>

But it doesn't print the content of the file.

Regards,
-- Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE


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[marc.wyburn@googlemail.com]

Re: Slurping All Content of a File into a Variable

myfile_content is an object and you have only opened the file. Python
doesn't yet know whether you want to read it, copy it etc.

to read it try

text = myfile_content. readlines()
print text

this should be in most tutorials


Wijaya Edward wrote:

Hi,
>
How can we slurp content of a single file
into one variable?
>
I tried this:
>

>myfile_conte nt = open('somefile. txt')
>print myfile_content,

<open file 'somefile.txt', mode 'r' at 0xb7f532e0>

>>

>
But it doesn't print the content of the file.
>
Regards,
-- Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE
>
>
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[Paul McGuire]

Re: Slurping All Content of a File into a Variable

<marc.wyburn@go oglemail.comwro te in message
news:1161948531 .098283.162950@ b28g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .

myfile_content is an object and you have only opened the file. Python
doesn't yet know whether you want to read it, copy it etc.
>
to read it try
>
text = myfile_content. readlines()
print text
>
this should be in most tutorials
>

readlines() will give you the file content as a list of newline-terminated
strings. If you just want the whole file in one big string do:

text = myfile_content. read()

And, yes, you should wade through some of the tutorials, this is basic
material.

-- Paul