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Demonstrates reading from a text file

print "Opening and closing the file." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") text_file.close() print "\nReading characters from the file." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") print text_file.read(1) print text_file.read(5) text_file.close() print "\nReading the entire file at once." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") whole_thing = text_file.read() print whole_thing text_file.close() print "\nReading characters from a line." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") print text_file.readline(1) print text_file.readline(5) text_file.close() print "\nReading one line at a time." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") print text_file.readline() text_file.close() print "\nReading the entire file into a list." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") lines = text_file.readlines() print lines print len(lines) for line in lines:     print line text_file.close() print "\nLooping through the file, line by line." text_file = open("read_it.txt", "r") for line in text_file:     print line text_file.close() raw_input("\n\nPress the enter key to exit.")