Empty variable when using print before readline

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with open('readme', 'r') as file_h:
    # Read the only line to the end
    print 'file content:', file_h.readline().strip()

    # Will not nor re-read the line,so wlll try to read line 2
    content = file_h.readline().strip()
    print 'from variable:', content

So with this input:

Ek6uEmoKUAAAAAAACCTVU6bnsIAABn
123

This output:

Output:
file content: Ek6uEmoKUAAAAAAACCTVU6bnsIAABn
from variable: 123