How to Read a Text File in Python

Learn how to easily read and analyse text files in Python easily using the Numpy library. This video walks you through all the steps from setting up your environment and downloading Numpy all the way to importing your text data and some basic data visualisation by separating our data into columns inside Python.

You will learn:
- How to read text files in python
- Parsing text files in python using array slicing
- How to work with text files in python in a general sense

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Chapter breakdown:

0:00 - Introduction
0:14 - Set up your project
0:34 - Create your Python script
0:46 - Creating your data directory
1:04 - Analysing the data file
1:42 - Installing Numpy in Pycharm
2:21 - Importing Numpy in our Python script
2:38 - Importing our text data
3:56 - Separating the first column from the dataset
4:20 - Extracting the first column with array slicing
5:02 - Printing the first column of our dataset

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[mmnyako]

Great video, I learn a lot from this short episode. Thanks for sharing!

[salihbalci]

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[halligannkb]

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