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[garich01]

Hi, I am new to this forum and new to Python. I am starting with some very basic scripting to manipulate and manage files. Eventually I want to setup some automated tasks to reduce workload.

Can anyone help me with my commands. I've managed to crate a text file and write into it but I cannot open the file and return the data within it via print.

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, any comments would be appreciated.

I'm running Python 3.6.2 via a shell on a Windows operating system.

Thanks

>>> data = open("readit.txt", "r")
>>> print data.read(1)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> data.close()
>>> file = open("writefile.txt", "w")
>>> file.write("hello")
5
>>> file.close()
>>> read = open("writefile.txt", "r")
>>> print read.line(1)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> print read.readline
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>>> print read.line(0)
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> print read.read()
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> 

[snippsat]

print has become a function in Python 3,always print().
Example print(data.read(1)), print(read.read())

[wavic]

with open('file.txt', 'r') as out_file:
     print(out_file.write('hello'))

That way you don't have to use close() after opening the file. It closes automaticaly. The with statement is called context manager.

Writing to a file:

with open('file.txt', 'w') as in_file:
    in_file.write('hello')

[garich01]

print has become a function in Python 3,always print().
Example print(data.read(1)), print(read.read())

Thanks that worked straight away. Now onto loops and search strings