Assigning every 3rd word from a txt file to a variable

Question

I'm supposed to use a txt file and select every 3rd word and assign it to the variable "three". This is what i have so far I don't know where to go from here.

fname = "school_prompt.txt"
with open(fname, 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        three = f.read().split()

Answer 1

for line in f: already puts the line as a string in line . You shouldn't do f.read() afterwards.

You want the whole text first so do this:

fname = "school_prompt.txt"
with open(fname, 'r') as f:
    text = f.read()

Now text is the content of the whole file. You can split it: words = text.split()

Now it should be easy to get every third word in a list:

three = words[0::3]