Reading Files | Python | Tutorial 28

Throughout the course we'll be looking at various topics including variables, lists, tuples, loops, conditionals, object orientation, and much more.

[riasatmorshedkhan]

"The Office" reference just made the video way cooler than it already is 💙

[epochalanaxagorasworldpeac]

it strikes me that we both love The office!!! HAHAHA You Video is excellent ! Good Job

[jasonturner]

Updated: 4 dislikes = inevitability of complaints. Amazing material, thank you for being so thorough and easy to understand. You made me a programmer!

[yz]

I got stuck at this part in a book (due to no illustrations) and a professor's video (due to too many jargons)...thanks so much for making it clear, Mike! :)

[ZuhayerSarfaraz]

actually top tear dude. loved the tutorial. Cleared alot stuff for me. Kinda like a friend is just helpin me through. Thank you so much

[Walexforsure]

Not a single dislike, this must be good

[xy]

i search around 3 hours to find how to find a specific line from a text file and this tutorial helps me for this.

[professorbettyeparham]

Excellent presentation concerning the readline method!!! Keep up the excellent work

[ismarsuceska]

Love the Office references. Correction, Dwigth is Assistant (to the) Regional Manager :D

[alexandera]

employee_list = open('employees', 'r')
txt = employee_list.read()
print(txt)
employee_list.close() #Here is another solution if you have any issues with his way.

[HIDlarissaTERRY]

Great valuable training _ timing is everything! Thank you Mike.

[Jumpae]

Ok, but how would you read/write an absolute location file.

[Bennyy]

Thank you Mike for this super clear and concise video. Keep up the awesome work! + Subbed

[RoseLK]

Mike, create the employees.txt file, then how to open it in Python?

[willeblom]

Awesme videos, Thank yoy.
I just wanted to share a sollution to an error that occured for me.
I tried opening and reading a file and got an error several times. It was because the path, as a string, kept being interpreted as special characters because of the backslash.
So for example:
would error because of \U.

The solution that worked for me was adding a r before the start of the text string as bellow, which python interprets as "raw".
Old way with error:
document = open("C:\Users\User\Documents\test.txt, "r")
New way that worked when doing it with a path:
document = open(r"C:\Users\User\Documents\test.txt, "r")

[nathancroley]

i keep getting the no such file or directory error

[blade]

it isnt workibg for me. It keeps saying the txt file isn't in the directory when it already is.

[scottisitt]

Why can't Python print more than one of these print commands in sequence? Like, why can't I have
" " on one line and then " " on the next line?

[emmanuelodih]

Please, your videos is one of the best of best, I will be the most happy person if you do python OOP pls

[kittendkat]

The .readable() method does not work on Mac OS, fyi.