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Python for Beginners: How to Read Text from a File

We’re back with more Python goodness from a beginner’s perspective. Our goal with this series is to make the Python language easy to learn and use.

I want to introduce you to yet another very handy feature of Python, the ability to open external files and read them.

Now, we’re going to create a python script to read the contents of that file and then print them out in the terminal.

And that’s how you read text from a file and write it to another file using Python.