[Tutor] Reading from a seperate file

[Mark Lawrence]

On 25/10/2012 19:15, myles broomes wrote:
>
> I'm trying to code a program that retrieves data from a seperate file but according to my program, the seperate file is empty when I know it clearly isn't. It's a txt file and here are its contents: 120
> 74
> 57
> 44
> 12
> I thought that maybe the problem was the code I had written but even when I try and read from the file in an interactive session in the Python Shell, it does the same thing. I open it in read mode and assign to a variable like so: scoresFile=open('highScores.txt','r') But whenever I try to say read from it: scoresFile.read() It comes up with a blank string: ' ' Can anyone help me?  Myles Broomes 		 	   		
>

Works fine for me.

c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type highScores.txt
120
74
57
44
12
c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type mytest.py
from __future__ import print_function, division
scoresFile=open('highScores.txt','r')
print(scoresFile.read())
c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>py -3 mytest.py
120
74
57
44
12

So unless you show us exactly what you've tried we'll find it difficult 
if not impossible to diagnose your problem.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.