🔒 Printing file contents to a screen.

[torpid mason]

I have the below code and it doesn't actually print it to the screen. Can someone point me where I am going wrong?

Code:

f = open("Space dwarf Grok three books outline .docx", "rt")
print(f.read)

[jolly trellis]

@torpid mason

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[torpid mason]

I've tried the below code with no success either.

Code:

with open("Space dwarf Grok three books outline .docx", "r") as file:
for line in file:
print(line, end=" ")

[olive frigate]

If you indent this properly (which I assume you have)

with open("Space dwarf Grok three books outline .docx", "r") as file:
  for line in file:
    print(line, end=" ")

Then that would probably work, yeah.

[ornate shadow]

ref.: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21785933

[olive frigate]

A .docx file isn't just text you can read - it's a binary file, so reading it like this would not work. But if you try with a typical text file, then you'd see some text.

[torpid mason]

Ahh okay. So it's just the file type. Trying that change now.

[ornate shadow]

The problem in the first example is that it says f.read where it should say f.read(). See the link.

But more important is to develop the skill of debugging. It is never enough to say "the code doesn't do what it's supposed to". The most important thing is what the code does do, and how that is different from what it's supposed to do.

[torpid mason]

I got it to work. Only issue now is it has a bunch of gibberish with the text and after the text.

[ornate shadow]

Yes, that's because that's what the file actually contains.

Or rather — files can only contain raw data. Even "plain text" is an abstraction on top of that.

If you interpret data differently from how it was intended to be interpreted, you get strange results.

[torpid mason]

Thank you. I understood what you meant @ornate shadow

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