Building first python program. Need a little guidance.

[buran]

I've learned enough that I want to try building a small program that I can actually use.

The code I currently have is your suggestion which displays the entire file.

You claim you have learned enough, to try and build small program (with little guidance probably), yet everything you have is the code suggested by nilamo? If this is not a homework, you should try to work on what you already have and use what you have learned so far - e.g. working with files, string methods, console output/input, loop/iteration, etc..