How to open the file hostdata.txt for reading.

Question

Problem:

Hello people

I am doing python programming for a few days. I am still learning. Could anybody please help me by showing how can I import a text file and read five lines from it by my python program?
If possible make it as easy words as possible for me.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can import a text file by calling a simple function in python named 

file=open()

Let’s assume we have a text file IH.txt and we want to import it and read it in our program. Thus I write:

file=open('IH.txt','r')
text=""
for i in range(6):
    text += file.readLine()
print(text)
file.close()

The read() function reads the whole file and readLine() function reads only one line from the text file.

The loop has 5 iterations and in each iteration, the next line from the file is appended to text via concatenation.