This is the code i have used

file_name = username   ".txt"   
folder = "/Users/ymalek_/Desktop"
myfile = open(os.path.join(folder, file_name), "r")
try:
    lines = myfile.readline()
    GetTopic = print(lines[-1])
    if GetTopic == "Language":
        Language(topic="Media Language")    #pre-defined function
    if GetTopic == "Industries":
        Language(topic="Media Industries")   #pre-defined function
    if GetTopic == "Representation":
        Language(topic="Media Representation")   #pre-defined function
    if GetTopic == "Audience":
        Language(topic="Media Audience")    #pre-defined function
 except:
        print("Could not find what your last weakness was")                       

This code does not run and my program automatically skips to the code after this - the pre-defined functions aren't running

CodePudding user response：

I think you meant to read all the lines from the file and look at the last one. Like this:

try:
    lines = myfile.readlines()
    GetTopic = lines[-1].strip()
    ...

Your code read one line into lines and lines[-1] was a single character and GetTopic = print(lines[-1]) meant that GetTopic was None and so not equal to any of your literal strings.

CodePudding user response：

• readline() returns a string - the first line of the document.
• readlines() returns an array, which is probably what you're expecting.
  • I prefer to use lines = [x.strip() for x in myfile.readlines()]
• The result of assigning a print() is always None. Python isn't the command line.