John Carmona wrote:
> MyText = open('The_text.txt','r').read()
>
> In the above line could someone tell me what the 'r' stand for. Many thanks
'read', i.e open the file for reading, as opposed to 'w' for writing. For more options see the docs
for file() (a synonym for open) here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html
Kent