Exercise 15. Reading Files

You know how to get input from a user with input or argv. Now you will learn about reading from a file. You may have to play with this exercise the most to understand what’s going on, so do the exercise carefully and remember your checks. Working with files is an easy way to erase your work if you are not careful.

This exercise involves writing two files. One is the usual ex15.py file that you will run, but the other is named ex15_sample.txt. This second file isn’t a script but a plain text file we’ll be reading in our script. Here are the contents of that file:

This is stuff I typed into a file.It is really cool stuff.Lots and lots of fun to have in here.

What we want to do is open that ...

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