How to Read a File

Explore methods to read files in Python, including opening files with various path styles, reading entire contents or line by line, using readlines(), and handling large files in manageable chunks.

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Python has a builtin function called open that we can use to open a file for reading. For our examples in this course, we will use a text file name “test.txt” with the following contents (don’t worry, we’ve already worked with Educative to have these files uploaded to your execution directory):

This is a test file
line 2
line 3
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