Python read file into string

In this post, we will see how to read a file into a string variable.

There are multiple ways to read file into String in Python.

Using read() method

Here are the steps to read file into string in python.

• Open the file in read mode using open() method and store it in variable named file
• Call read() function on file variable and store it into string variable countriesStr.
• print countriesStr variable

Let’s first see content of countries.txt file which we are going to read.

Python code to read file into string

Output:

Using pathlib

You can also use pathlib module to copy text file content into a string variable and close the file in one line. Please note that pathlib library is available after Python 3.5 or later.

Output:

That’s all about how to read file into string in Python.