Read File

Am new to python so I decided to take some notes in .txt files and thought it would be a good idea if I had program that could read them! So I set out to do this. All is well except whenever there is a new line in the text file python prints "\n" instead of taking a new line.
This is my code:


name=raw_input("Which file would you like to read?")

second=".txt"

name = "%s%s" % (name,second)


file = open(name)

for line in file:
print line,


Text File:
Python is great
I love python
but why is it doing this?

Result:
Python is great \n I love python \n but why is it doing this?
What am I doing wrong!? Thanks

Solved!!

Solved!!
Share your solution please...

Lol sorry, that would be a good idea!

Yeah when I was experimenting I put the new line characters into the text file so thats why they were showing up. Now I am having a problem taking a new line when there is one in the file e.g.

File:
Hi
Bye

Program Prints:
Hi Bye

Have been following the python guide but I seem to be doing something wrong, I can only seem to able to read the whole file at once and not just one line?!

^ Well, nobody can tell you what's wrong with what you're doing if nobody can see it. But you should probably read up on read() and readlines(); they're very useful when you're working with text files.

Done some more research and found that it doesn't work on mac os x because of some GNU licence agreement. I tried my program on linux and it worked fine. Am now looking at how to get it to work on the mac..

Does anyone know how to do that?

I had to chose the method that didn't work lol :-P

Whatever. If you don't show people here how you're trying to do things, nobody can help you.

Whatever. If you don't show people here how you're trying to do things, nobody can help you.

I am showing you what I'm doing, included the program source, its output and the desired result. I don't know how more clear I can be.

file.readline() does not work on mac for some strange reason!

Does anyone know how to solve this?

file.readline() does not work on mac for some strange reason!
Does anyone know how to solve this?

Uhm. Put an s in file.readline? Like: file.readlines(). You should also catch the result in a variable because readlines() is going to return a list. But again, what are you trying to do and how are you trying to do it?

I did try the readlines and it worked. I just didn't know how I would go about printing each line of text on a new line.

I simply want to read a text file and print it out in IDLE and so that when there is a new line of text this is represented in IDLE.

When creating the file object use f = (filename, 'rU')

apparently the 'U' tells python to ignore the Unix line endings.

so the code would look something like this.

filename=raw_input("Give me a filename: ")

f = (filename, 'rU')

for line in f:
print line,

When creating the file object use f = (filename, 'rU')

apparently the 'U' tells python to ignore the Unix line endings.

so the code would look something like this.

filename=raw_input("Give me a filename: ")

f = (filename, 'rU')

for line in f:
print line,


If only I could thank myself.. lol :P