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 namedfile - Call
read()function onfilevariable and store it into string variablecountriesStr. - print
countriesStrvariable
Let’s first see content of countries.txt file which we are going to read.
$ cat countries.txt
#Country,Capital
India,Delhi
China,Shangai
Bhutan,Thimpu
France,Paris
#Country,Capital
India,Delhi
China,Shangai
Bhutan,Thimpu
France,Paris
Python code to read file into string
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with open('countries.txt','r') as file: countriesStr = file.read() print(countriesStr) |
Output:
#Country,Capital
India,Delhi
China,Shangai
Bhutan,Thimpu
France,Paris
India,Delhi
China,Shangai
Bhutan,Thimpu
France,Paris
Further reading:
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.
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from pathlib import Path countriesStr=Path('countries.txt').read_text() print(countriesStr) |
Output:
#Country,Capital
India,Delhi
China,Shangai
Bhutan,Thimpu
France,Paris
India,Delhi
China,Shangai
Bhutan,Thimpu
France,Paris
That’s all about how to read file into string in Python.
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