.txt file is opening but prints nothing-CodePudding

I'm trying to open a text file and print it as a string. I've made sure there is text in the .txt file but when I run the code it just prints an empty space, I don't know what to do at this point since I couldn't find anything that could help me with my problem.

with open('test.txt', 'r') as file:
    data = file.read().rstrip()

print(data)

CodePudding user response：

When things aren't opening check the following:

You wrote exactly the same in your code as the one you saved. "file.txt" is not the same as "File.txt" for Python (same goes for accents and special characters).
The file you are trying to read is in the same directory. If your code is at users/bla/documents/another_folder and you just pass the name of the file to your code, then the file must be at users/bla/documents/another_folder too. If not, be shure to add it into the string path as "path/to/your/file/file.txt"
Make sure that the extension .txt is the same as your file.
If you checked that but everything seems correct, try:

with open(path_to_file) as f:
    contents = f.readlines()

And see if "contents" has something.

CodePudding user response：

I think it is better if you use open("file.txt","r") function to do it. So your code will be like this:

file=open("test.txt","r")
data=file.read().strip()
print(data)