How to get python to read my file correctly?

[candylicious]

I am required to read the file attached titled game2.txt below using python,
but my output is a blank line, which is not what the file includes
How do I get python to read and print my file correctly ??

here is what I have done:

game=open("game2.txt", "r")
yay=game.read()
print(yay)

the output is just a blank line
What do I do to get python to print the file?


file:///C:/Users/Candy/Downloads/game2.txt
^^this is the attached game2.txt file

[buran]

it looks ok, although it could be done better in a different way
check your txt file (it's not attached)

[candylicious]

I currently cannot attach the file due to my status but the file is a txt. stating these:

h, 2, 2, 2

v, 2, 0, 4

v, 3, 0, 5

h, 2, 1, 2

v, 2, 2, 4

v, 3, 3, 2

v, 2, 4, 3
h, 2, 4, 4


(this is directly copied and pasted from the file game2.txt)

[buran]

as I said, if the file is not empty, the code works fine as is.

even if it works, it has some problems.
1. you don't close the file after reading from it. you need to add game.close() or better use with context manager
2. reading the entire file could be a problem for extra large files, depending on available memory on your machine. so you can iterate and print line by line

with open("game2.txt", "r") as game:
    for line in game:
        print(line, end='')

[Larz60+]

Using pathlib, allows you to specify a filepath to a file in any directory
Or you can do it this way:

from pathlib import Path

def read_file(name):
    with name.open() as f:
        for line in f:
            print(line, end='')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    game2 = Path('.') / 'game2.txt'
    read_file(game2)

game2.txt

Output:
This is the game2.txt file
another linie
to
show that it
works

results

Output:
This is the game2.txt file
another linie
to
show that it
works

the way you would specify  a file like '../data/game2.txt,
the path would be defined as:

game2 = Path('.') / '..' / 'data' / 'game2.txt'

if you had many files in the data directory you wanted to print out,
you could do it this way:

from pathlib import Path

def read_file(fname):
    print('Reading file: {}'.format(fname.name')
    with fname.open() as f:
        for line in f:
            print(line, end='')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    datapath = Path('.') / '..' / 'data'
    files = [x for x in datapath.iterdir() if x.is_file()]
    for file in files:
        read_file(file)

[candylicious]

In python in order to open a file using

game=open("test.txt","r")
gameboard=game.read()
print(gameboard)

where do you save the file?
because when I do this in python it prints out a blank line or maybe there is another issue I'm unaware of???

[snippsat]

You have a other thread about the same here.
When no Path is give to test.txt the python script must be in same folder as test.txt.

foo\
  |-- test.text --> hello world
  |-- my_script.py

# my_script.py
game = open("test.txt", "r")
gameboard = game.read()
game.close()
print(gameboard)

Output:
hello world

Give Path to a other folder.

# my_script.py
game = open("C:/bar/test2.txt", "r")
gameboard = game.read()
game.close()
print(gameboard)

Output:
I am test2 in folder bar

[Padowan]

You can check your current working directory with this;

import os
cwd = os.getcwd()

and change the current working directory to any path you want with;

os.chdir(path)

An example of a Mac path could be;

path="/Users/HOME/Desktop/Addl Work/TimeSeries-Done"