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The read() method

Now we will read a file by a program. The access mode for reading is r.

Let's take the sample of a text file containing famous quotes:

Sample file

I have saved the preceding file with the name sample1.txt.

Let's write a readfile.py program to read the earlier file: 

file_input = open("sample1.txt",'r')all_read = file_input.read()print all_readfile_input.close() 

In the given code, first we created a file_input file object, then we called file_input.read() to read the file content. After reading, the file_input file object is closed by file_input.close().  To be sure the sample file and the code readfile.py must be in the ...