Read File

[whatg]

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

[whatg]

Solved!!

[abduraooft]

Originally Posted by whatg

Solved!!

Share your solution please...

[whatg]

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?!

[Samhain13]

^ 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.

[whatg]

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

[Samhain13]

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

[whatg]

Originally Posted by Samhain13

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?

[Samhain13]

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?

[whatg]

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.

[whatg]

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,

[whatg]

Originally Posted by whatg

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