Printing a .txt File Python

Question

I need some help Im trying to display the text files contents (foobar) with this code

 text = open('C:\\Users\\Imran\\Desktop\\text.txt',"a")
    rgb = text.write("foobar\n")
    print (rgb)
    text.close()

for some reason it keeps displaying a number. If anyone could help that would be awesome, thanks in advance

EDIT: I am Working with Python 3.3.

Answer 1

Print the contents of the file like this:

with open(filename) as f:
    for line in f:
        print(line)

Use with to ensure that the file handle will be closed when you are finished with it.

Append to the file like this:

with open(filename, 'a') as f:
    f.write('some text')

Answer 2

If you want to display the contents of the file open it in read mode f=open("PATH_TO_FILE", 'r')

And then print the contents of file using

for line in f:
    print(line)     # In Python3.

And yes, don't forget to close the file pointer f.close() after you finish the reading

Answer 3

You are printing the number of written bytes. That won't work. Also you might need to open the file as RW.

Code:

text = open('...', "a")
text.write("foo\n")
text = open('...', "r")
print text.read()

Answer 4

# Open a file
fo = open("foo.txt", "r+")
str = fo.read();
print "Read String is : ", str
# Close opend file
fo.close()