Sep 24, 2019 · In the commands read(), readline() and readlines(), one difference is of course reading whole file, or a single line, or specified line. But I didn't understand the use/necessity of bracket () in …

Apr 16, 2013 · if buf[0]=="\x47": IndexError: string index out of range My questions are: What's the type of a return value in read() function? How can I get the first character in a string or array?

How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a list? I want to read the file line by line and append each line to the end of the list.

Aug 6, 2012 · I am trying to output a file's contents to terminal using the File.read () function in Python, but keep receiving the following output which doesn't match my ".txt" file contents.

Sep 28, 2018 · As others already mentionned, there's no read() function in Python - what you're looking for (as confirmed in a comment) is the read() method of the file object (Python 2.x) or …

May 22, 2017 · Essentially, I wan this function to take a file name, read the contents of that file into the profile_list. I want the list of profile objects to be returned when the function is called, but I can'...

Jun 29, 2016 · Please clarify. is the timeit measurement for read, or for readlines? I'd expect the read loop to take longer because it returns a single string, so iterating over it would go character-by …

Jul 11, 2016 · In Python, variables that are only referenced inside a function are implicitly global. If a variable is assigned a new value anywhere within the function’s body, it’s assumed to be a local.

In Python, how do I read in a binary file and loop over each byte of that file?

How do I read from standard input (stdin)? There's a few ways to do it. sys.stdin is a file-like object on which you can call functions read or readlines if you want to read everything or you want to read …