[Tutor] read() question

[Danny Yoo]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, John Carmona wrote:

> MyText = open('The_text.txt','r').read()
>
> In the above line could someone tell me what the 'r' stand for.

Hi John,


You may want to look at:

    http://www.python.org/doc/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-25

If you're still unsure about what 'r' means, feel free to ask again, and
one of us here can go into more detail.

Good luck to you.