Python file is not reading contents of a text file

Question

My Python file, which is just a very small file, will not read the contents of a.txt file in the same folder as the python file. The (very simple) code is below:

file = open("contents.txt", "r")

print(file.read())

file.close()

Even this will not work. The contents:txt file contains:

random data that the python file should read

Can anyone help?

PS No errors are produced, and the command prompt app just moves on.

Answer 1

Never mind, it works. The file was located in a different folder, and once i brought it to the folder with the python file, it worked.