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We can read an open text le using the Read

Method.
In this example, I'm gonna read poem text is a
text
le that I've imported into my Jupyter Notebook
and
then I've opened it in read.
And then, i want to assign it to this variable.
And it's gonna import that text as a string
including all the whitespace new line characters
("\n").
 0:04 / 1:18  Speed 1.0x  HD     So I'm gonna go ahead and do that right now.

Video Transcripts
Download video le Download SubRip (.srt) le
Download Text (.txt) le

Concept

Read a le using .read()

reading text
poem_contents = poem_file.read()

.read() loads the content of the le into memory as a string, including formatting such as new line (\n)
Examples

examples expect that the cells that import and open of poem1.txt has been run without a read()
Run the cells that import and open poem1.txt

# [ ] review and run example

poem_contents = poem_file.read()

# [ ] review and run example

# shows the file as a string with formatting characters such as "\n", output should be non-blank
poem_contents

# [ ] review and run example

# since .read() loaded the file as a string it can be printed
print(poem_contents)

Task 2
read a le

Read the le cities.text that was imported in task 1

1. import cities.txt and open

1. ensure the code was created and run in task 1 to import cities.txt

2. create and run code to re-open cities.txt as cities_ le

2. read() cities_ le into a variable called cities

3. Test the read() by displaying the string contained in cities

4. Test the read() by printing the cities string

# [ ] after import and open of cities.txt in task 1

# [ ] read cities_file as cities
# [ ] display the string: cities

# [ ] print the string: cities

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