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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Reading Files

Posted by MoatazBellah Ghobashy
MoatazBellah Ghobashy
9,518 Points

How to can i get some file to read with a directory!!

What if i have a file in some where in my computer , how to get it to read by directory

1 Answer

hum4n01d
hum4n01d
25,493 Points

You need to use the open() function. Here is an example:

To open a file called test.txt and save to to a variable you would do this:

with open('test.txt', 'r') as f:
    contents = f.read()

Now you can access it by referencing the variable "contents". If your file is somewhere else, you’ll have to use an absolute path like this: "/Users/You/Desktop/something.txt" instead of just the file name.